US oilfield deaths rise sharply
SNYDER, Texas - Less than two months into the job in the oilfields of West Texas , Brandon Garrett was sliced in half by a motorized spool of steel cable as he and other roughnecks struggled to get a drilling rig up and running.
Garrett's grisly end illustrates yet another soaring cost of America's unquenchable thirst for energy: Deaths among those working the nation's oil and gas fields have risen at an alarming rat...
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