Study: North Dakota oil worker death rate 6 times US average

North Dakota has the country’s highest death rate for workers in the oil, gas and mining sector, at more than six times the national average, and an even higher rate among construction workers, according to a new report from the nation’s largest labor union.

The AFL-CIO report, compiled from data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, found that North Dakota had a rate of 104 deaths per 100,000 workers in the oil, gas and mining industry in 2012. The national average was 15.9 deaths per 100,000.

And at 97.4 deaths per 100,000 workers, the state’s construction fatality rate was nearly 10 times the national rate for that industry, according to the report.

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