Officials in a western North Dakota county are fine-tuning their response plans for a possible oilfield accident. Emergency management personnel and law enforcement from the county staged what was dubbed a “full-scale oil explosion exercise” on Saturday. It was based …
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating three workplace deaths in western North Dakota. Mountrail County Sheriff Ken Halvorson says two men were killed Monday when they fell 250 feet from a cellphone tower. Halvorson says 42-year-old Namon Smith …
A wrongful death lawsuit involving Marathon Oil and the mother of a 21-year-old Montana man found dead at a western North Dakota oil well in 2012 has been settled. Trista Juhnke filed the suit in Montana’s Yellowstone County in July. …
The widow of a man who was killed while working on an oil rig in western North Dakota has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court. Kathryne Due says Houston-based Neighbors Drilling USA did not ensure safe conditions and …