Report: ND, SD and Montana among nation’s most unsafe state’s to work in
May 2, 2012 at 6:04 pm in The Dickinson Press
North Dakota is among the worst states when it comes to workplace safety, a report released Wednesday shows. Continue Reading
Report: ND, SD and Montana among nation’s most unsafe state’s to work in
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A high rate of deaths and for those injured seriously. Not much.
The system works okay for the little things, but serious injuries have the person treated as if he is the problem and just a slacker and if the WSI people can figure out how to trip him up and cause him to lose his benefits, they do it.
And the benefits aren’t really enough to live.
But that keeps the WSI at the lowest in the nation with big employers getting a big rebate after they got tired of safety payoffs, I mean grants, through Traynor.
It’s not quite like when if you ground your arm off in a meatgrinder that they fired you, only paid you a half day, and deducted the cost of the hamburger you ruined, but that’s it’s roots. Only thing is, it gives the employer immunity from lawsuit even when he is negligent.
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Do they have a breakdown of fatality rates for the individual professions? How do the oil workers, truck drivers, construction workers, etc., in this region compare with the oil workers, truck drivers, construction workers, etc. in other regions?
If a State has a higher ratio of high-risk jobs versus low-risk jobs, they are going to have a higher overall fatality rate. So when you compare the overall fatality rate to other states with different risk-ratios, it doesn’t really tell us anything. Working around dangerous equipment is going to yield more fatalities than working in an office building. You can’t just through everyone into the equation as an equal worker.
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