Participants at Wyoming’s 4th Annual Safety Summit in Casper last week were told the state’s worker death rate is three to four times the national average, with one worker dying every ten days.
“Historically, in the last 10 years, (there have been) about 20 to 48 fatal events per year. The Wyoming rate is about three or four times the national rate, when we had experienced a fatal event, work-related event, about once every 10 days,” State Epidemiologist Mack Sewell told the audience. “For the time period from 1992 to 2009, there were 622 fatalities.”
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