Oklahoma is a national leader in a category it isn’t boasting about…..oil field deaths.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oklahoma ranks number two nationally for the number of employees killed in the oil and gas industry.
The Texas Tribune reported the first-of-its-kind, the study relies on federal workplace data from 2014 through 2019 and was released earlier this month. It tracked a total of 470 deaths among industry workers across the U.S. and found that vehicle crashes and being hit by an object while on the job were the leading contributing factors of death.
Texas — which is the nation’s largest oil producer — leads the U.S. with most deaths, 219, followed by 48 deaths in Oklahoma. The CDC tracked 39 deaths in North Dakota during the same five-year span.
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