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Report Blames Safety Lapses for an Epidemic of Deaths at Wyoming Job Sites
NY Times reports:
A report compiled by an epidemiologist hired by the state and released on Jan. 3, found that Wyoming’s work sites lacked what it called a culture of safety and that proper safety procedures were not followed in the vast majority of cases when someone was killed on the job.
The report also noted that Wyoming had the highest workplace fatality rate in the country for all but one year from 2003 through 2008. In 2010, the last year that data was provided, Wyoming’s estimated occupational death rate was three and a half times the national average, the report said.
The report also noted that Wyoming had the highest workplace fatality rate in the country for all but one year from 2003 through 2008. In 2010, the last year that data was provided, Wyoming’s estimated occupational death rate was three and a half times the national average, the report said.
So how's that limited government working out in that state? In November, the NY Times profiled Wyoming politics in "Idiosyncrasy Runs Deep in the Soil of Wyoming". The article commented that the state "mixes mind-your-own-business cowboy libertarianism and fiscal penny-pinching".