No sirens or local alert system warned an RV park housing workers in North Dakota’s oil patch about a Memorial Day tornado that injured nine people and damaged or destroyed 15 trailers. Even with warning, there are scant places to …
Traffic accidents in Williston, N.D., fell dramatically in June compared to the same time a year ago. Officials in the northwestern North Dakota city have been emphasizing safety on the roads since oil patch traffic began to increase several years …
Two companies fined more than half a million dollars by the state for improperly dumping sewage in the western North Dakota oil patch have reached an agreement with federal prosecutors on more fines. Fairview, Mont.-based Hurley Enterprises and Stanley-based MonDak …
North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency is offering safety training to companies in the state’s booming oil patch, an effort to decrease job-related deaths and injuries happening most often to employees with less than a year on the job, officials said. …
As traffic has increased in western North Dakota’s booming oil patch, so have fatal vehicle crashes. Mark Berwick, a research associate at the Fargo-based, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute tells The Bismarck Tribune that 42 percent of the 2011 fatalities …
Highway Patrol officers this week are conducting wide-scale truck inspections in northwest North Dakota and northeast Montana. Truck traffic has increased dramatically in the region because of booming oil activity. Officers are conducting safety inspections on commercial vehicles and drivers, …
Emergency medical crews in North Dakota’s Oil Patch describe the challenges they face as “crazy” or “overwhelming” and “like a war zone.” Those descriptions, from reports compiled by state emergency medical services officials, document an exploding demand for services triggered …
The number of fatalities on North Dakota roads this year has surpassed last year’s total, with 1 1/2 months still to go. Highway Patrol Lt. Jody Skogen tells The Bismarck Tribune that through Tuesday, 125 people had died on North …