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CDC Urges OSHA To Bolster Data-Gathering In Report On Oil & Gas Deaths


September 1, 2023 at 04:46 PM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is calling on OSHA to improve how it investigates and records worker deaths in the oil and gas extraction (OGE) sector, saying the agency’s current practices and lack of a specific safety standard for OGE work have produced incomplete data as part of a report on fatalities in the industry.

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