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Richmond Reports Workplace Deaths Up in 2012

Federal figures show workplace fatalities increased in the Richmond, Va., metropolitan statistical area in 2012. During the same period, work-related fatal injuries declined in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News metropolitan statistical area, or MSA. Preliminary figures released Tuesday by the U.S. …

Workplace Deaths Rise in North Dakota Oil Patch

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. …