Report: Lack of workplace safety culture in Wyo.
20.05.12
(AP) CHEYENNE, Wyo. — An epidemiologist's yearlong study of Wyoming's grim record as one of the worst states for deadly workplace accidents has produced a scathing assessment: Employers consistently fail to enforce safety rules while telling their employees to just "get the job done."
The oil and gas industry especially has room to improve, according to Dr. Timothy Ryan's report to Gov. Matt Mead.
Ignored safety rules correlated with 96 percent of the 62 deaths in Wyoming's petroleum industry from 2001-2008, when objects struck or crushed 16 of 32 workers killed on drilling rigs and 17 of the 25 oil and gas workers killed in vehicle accidents weren't wearing seat belts.
Wyoming's overall workplace death rate was more than three and a half times the national average in 2010 and has ranked worst in the nation five of the past 10 years.
The recommendations in Ryan's report show that the state needs to make systemic changes, Mead said after releasing
Source: CBS News