Oil Industry Plans to Keep Workers Safe—by Firing Them and Having Robots Do Their Jobs

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By Justin MikulkaJul 19, 2018, 4:48 pm389 pts
Read time: 8 mins The oil and gas industry is finally acknowledging how dangerous employment can be for its workers after years of touting the sector as a beacon of worker safety. This sudden honesty about the dangers of working in the oil patch coincides with the industry’s new solution to greatly improve…

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