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Oklahoma High Court: Oil Firm Can Be Sued When Worker is Injured, Killed

The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that oil and natural gas companies can be sued when a worker is killed or injured on the job. The state’s highest court struck down a state workers’ compensation law that exempted oil and …

Two More Colorado Oil Worker Deaths Than Previously Calculated

A new federal database that was developed to more precisely count the number of deaths in the oil and gas industry shows eight workers died in Colorado in 2014. The count by the Fatalities in Oil and Gas Extraction, or …