In a recent memorandum to regional administrators, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Director of Enforcement Programs Thomas Galassi noted that worker fatality rates at upstream drilling and well servicing operations range from five to eight times greater than the national average for all US industries.
This is a preprint of an article published in Natural Gas & Electricity ©2015, August, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/105559587.