Women Cash In on Dakota Oil Service Needs to Sustain Boom
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Amanda Kieson gets calls at 2:30 a.m. to collect urine samples from workers involved in accidents in western North Dakota’s oil industry. The 33-year-old mother of two says she opened her testing service two years ago to get a part of the economic bonanza engulfing the region.
“I love my business, which is weird because, you know, with what we actually have to put up with,” Kieson, the owner of Badlands Occupational Testing Services, said in a phone interview. The company in Watford City has grown to six employees and 24-hour service from demand for post-accident reports and pre-employment drug screening. “We are busy all the time.”