On Sunday, a tour bus went out of control while traveling down a Southern California mountain road. The bus struck a car, then flipped, and went into a pick up truck. Eight people were killed and 38 people were injured. The crash occurred on State Route 38, approximately 80 miles..
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Facebook has agreed to pay a $20 million settlement, which might include Facebook readers reading this. some of that cash. The class action claims Facebook took user-names and photos to help “sponsored stories.” Facebook denies any wrong-doing but has agreed to pay a total of $20 million toward the settlement. ..
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Why does it matter that Paul Ryan has such trouble with the truth? The Republican’s want this Presidential election to be about the economy, as they through their lies, will define it. They think that because things are bad, if they make a bunch of promises about how cutting taxes..
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A worker who was injured on the job at a gas drilling rig in Colorado was awarded $4.1 million by a federal jury in Denver in June, according to the Post Independent. http://www.postindependent.com/article/20120615/VALLEYNEWS/120619935/1083&ParentProfile=1074 The verdict went to Von Phathong, now 42, who was born in Laos but is now a..
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I’m not the only one alarmed over the surge in work-related deaths in the booming oil industry. Officials have taken note of the problem in Oklahoma. Nine people have died, and three were hospitalized for burns, in oil-field related incidents in Oklahoma since October, which is when the federal fiscal..
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Add another item to the list of mishaps and dangers that oil workers face. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Thursday issued a hazard alert to make sure that employers in hydraulic fracturing operations take..
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Three men were killed Monday in an oilfield accident west of El Dorado, Ark., when there was an explosion as they were taking apart an old oil containment vessel, according to the Magnolia Reporter. http://www.magnoliareporter.com/news_and_business/regional_news/article_d111f0e0-a3b5-11e1-8088-001a4bcf887a.html The fatal accident is under investigation, but authorities suspect that the victims died when they..
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An oil rig worker fell 90 feet to his death from a derrick last week in Louisiana, according to KSLA News 12. http://www.ksla.com/story/18332368/two-investigations-underway-in-oil-rig-fatal-fall Zachary “Ty” Stewart, 22, was flown to Louisiana State University in Shreveport, La., after the accident on the derrick in south Caddo Parish, KSLA reported. He died..
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Four workers were hurt, with three in critical condition in a burn center, following a fire at the Sinclair Oil Corp. refinery in Wyoming, according to Wyoming Trib.com. http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming-refinery-fire-victims-in-critical-condition/article_832c1c5d-425a-5ca8-b7c7-7ca4df80049e.html The fire started shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday in the refinery’s gas recovery unit, which is a few miles from Rawlins,..
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Houston Chronicle columnist Loren Steffy Saturday offered a thoughtful, and critical, column about the U.S. oil industry and its unwillingness to take responsibility safety issues. http://www.chron.com/business/steffy/article/Steffy-Safety-and-prevention-to-dominate-OTC-3518508.php Ostensibly, the column was a preview of a major trade show that starts this week in Houston, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). But Steffy..
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