FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — 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 is two more than what the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics tabulated for last year.
The discrepancy comes from the different methodology used by the National Institute for Occupational Health, which put together the new database.
Kyla Retzer is an epidemiologist who led the effort to compile the new database.
Retzer tells The Denver Post (http://dpo.st/1ldyXAi) that the new database is more in-depth in finding out the types of operations and equipment involved in oil field deaths.
So far this year, there’ve been no reported fatalities in Colorado oil fields.
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Information from: The Denver Post, http://www.denverpost.com
