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Feds to launch sweeping oil patch safety study
Next year, federal health officials will send questionnaires to hundreds of workers in oil and gas fields across the country in a study aimed at making the industry less deadly, according to The Denver Post.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will send the surveys to about 625 workers in onshore oil patches in Texas, North Dakota and an unnamed state in the Appalachian Basin.
The three-year study, which NIOSH said will “determine on-duty and off-duty factors that contribute to motor vehicle crashes, injuries and illness” among oil and gas extraction workers, will distribute the questionnaires to equipment and trucking yards, well sites, community centers and “man camps,” the temporary lodging structures housing workers flooding into the oil patch.
Oil field work is considered especially dangerous — the fatality rate for the industry is seven times higher than the national industry average.
In 2012 and 2013, the last two years for which data is available, 112 and 126 workers died across the oil and gas extraction sector. In Texas, the biggest oil and gas producing state in the country, dozens of workers die each year; state data for mining fatalities, which includes oil and gas extraction, shows 51 and 66 deaths in those last two years.
12 Comments on "Feds to launch sweeping oil patch safety study"
Nony on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 7:06 pm
Oh yeah.
Makati1 on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 8:47 pm
“Feds to launch sweeping oil patch safety study” LMAO!
The fox guarding the chickens? If it was doing it’s job and enforcing past regs, there would likely be no fraking or were they speaking of the entire industry? I don’t recall too many oil field ‘accidents’ over my lifespan outside of the pollution from fraking and tar sands.
And construction is one of the most dangerous jobs by far. Oil fields are not even in the top 10 of any list I just reviewed. Not even mentioned on any of them.
http://pattyinglishms.hubpages.com/hub/Most_Dangerous_Jobs
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-10-most-dangerous-jobs.html;_ylt=A0SO80k8d_dVTnYARwZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzbjlmaW9hBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMyBHZ0aWQDTUFQMDA1XzEEc2VjA3Ny
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2015/07/23/americas-most-dangerous-jobs/
Plantagenet on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 9:13 pm
How thoughtful of the feds. This will give all the unemployed oilfield workers something to do.
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 9:29 pm
There’s an upside to the poor safety record. Less Americans.
Plantagenet on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 10:27 pm
If you really want fewer Americans, Bias, why don’t you start with yourself?
Cheers!
apneaman on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 10:34 pm
Mak, I have done 4 out of the 10 jobs from that first link. Amazing that a dumb mother fucker like me is still alive.
apneaman on Mon, 14th Sep 2015 10:57 pm
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rockman on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 12:02 am
Just a little bit of FYI: thd most common cause of death/injury for oil field workers offshore doesn’t happen on the rigs but during helicopter transport.
It will be interesting to what the most common causes are. During the Eagle Ford boom a lot of the accidents were truck related… light experience drivers pushing their hours. In my 40 years ever accident I’ve seen first hand was due to human error. And it wasn’t uncommon to be the result of intentionally violating safety proceedures.
James Tipper on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 12:03 am
What don’t people understand? Of course oil companies are not going to care about safety regulations when their well are producing oil that’s too cheap and at a slower pace. Why would they seek to repair what they know will simply not even be online in 5 years of less? The sheer lack of foresight is pretty incredible even for gov’t people though.
It should be a dead giveaway that oil companies know oil will continue to get cheaper when they don’t repair their machines.
Makati1 on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 12:41 am
Ap, you were careful and lucky, I guess. I worked in various construction jobs for the first 20+ years of my working career. I was always careful and am still here, but I have broken bones and many scars to show for it. I also saw deaths from construction accidents during that time and serious injuries. But, over a lifetime, the most dangerous thing you can do is get into your car and drive to work.
Davy on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 4:30 am
TLB from Montreal Canada. You are an example of Canadian trash whiffing onto the net. Don’t you think you should show decency and IQ for the other descent people of Canada? I read all your comments and they are empty of substance. There is little IQ in potty mouth, name calling, and or death wishing. Scum from Canada is all you are. Not only that you’re a pussy and will not engage in conversation when confronted. Just a little pussy hiding behind the computer screen. That says allot about the substance behind your puke.
rockman on Tue, 15th Sep 2015 10:26 am
James – Sorry..bumper sticker statements such as yours don’t wash for those of us who actually work on drilling wells. Take ExxonMobil for instance. I’ve worked on numerous wells for them including offshore Africa. There are very few companies that can match their zeal for safety. And it has zero basis in morality or caring about the hands. It’s 100% about the money. What better example the BP’s f*ck up at Maconado when you consider what it cost them monetarily.
Granted my company is too small to even be a pimple on XOM’s ass. But we put the hands safety above monetary interests. I’ve fired hands and subcontractors for not following our protocols. Partly because it’s the right thing to do. But we never forget the potential financial liability. There’s zero profit potential in operating unsafely and a huge potential financial loss for not doing so.
And again: it ain’t personal…just good business.