As least two employees were injured after a plant explosion in Glendale Heights, Illinois on April 1.
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Wynnewood Refining Co. LLC, a crude oil refining company in Oklahoma, was cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupation Safety and Health Administration following an investigation into the death of two workers at the facility.
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Methane gas emissions are commonplace in the oil and gas industry, mainly at gas wells where hydraulic fracturing takes place.
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Employees of JJ’s restaurant in Kansas City filed a lawsuit against five companies and one person after a natural gas explosion in February.
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During the trial regarding the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Transocean Ltd. CEO Steven Newman said the company could have done more to prevent the oil rig explosion.
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Hydrogen sulfide is a toxic gas known by several different names including sewer gas, stink damp, swamp gas and manure gas.
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A natural gas leak in Kansas City made for an extremely dangerous situation as firefighters tried to battle flames at a local nail salon March 21.
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In 1911, 146 employees working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York’s Greenwich Village were killed in a factory fire.
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In order to keep employees safe from carbon monoxide exposure and prevent injury or death from poisoning, employers need to provide not only education and training but proper safety equipment to alert workers of hazardous situations
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Although employers are responsible for providing adequate training to prevent employee injury, they must also install safety equipment.
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