BLS - Facts & Statistics                                                                  

Fact: Each day 15-17 workers die in the United States & 5,000-6,000 die each year.

          2006 All Industries lost 5,703 workers, Manufacturing - 447, Construction - 1226, Agriculture - 64

          90% of all accidents are caused by behavior and either a unsafe act or unsafe condition.

2006 - USA WORK FATAL - BLS			Primary source:
			Vehicles	2464
			Highway vehicles	1785
Total:	5,703		Automobiles	317
			Trucks	1259
Gender:			Plant and industrial powered vehicles	272
Men	5275		Forklifts	81
Women	428		Tractors	180
			Structures and surfaces	887
Age:			Floors, walkways, ground surfaces	771
Under 16	10		Machinery	490
16 to 17	20		Agriculture and garden machinery	78
18 to 19	104		Construction, logging, and mining machinery	214
20 to 24	382		Material handling machinery	101
25 to 34	1016		Parts and materials	379
35 to 44	1266		Machine, tool, and electric parts	140
45 to 54	1378		Persons, plants, animals	248
55 to 64	941		Persons -other than injured worker	28
65 years and over	577		Robber	9
			Co-worker, former co-worker	6
Race or ethnic origin :			Trees, logs	119
White, non-Hispanic	3945		Chemicals and chemical products	191
Black, non-Hispanic	552		Tools, instruments, and equipment	115
Hispanic	937		Containers	91
American Indian, Aleut, Eskimo	44		Other	838
Asian	142		Bullets and pellets	531
Pacific Islander	10		Fire, flame, smoke	102
Multiple races	10
Other or not reported	63		Part of body :
			Head	1277
Event or exposure:			Trunk	872
Contact with objects and equipment	983		Chest	419
Struck by object	583		Back	60
Struck by falling object	378		Neck	105
Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects	281		Lower extremities	76
Caught in running equipment or machinery	148		Upper extremities	16
Falls	809		Body systems	938
Fall to lower level	728		Multiple	2388
Fall from ladder	129
Fall from roof	184		Nature:
Fall from scaffold, staging	88		Intracranial injuries	1029
Exposure to harmful substances or environments	525		Other traumatic injuries	1527
Contact with electric current	247		Internal injuries	584
Exposure to caustic, noxious, or allergenic substances	153		Asphyxiations, suffocations	310
Oxygen deficiency (including drowning)	64		Drownings	162
Transportation incidents	2413		Electrocutions	245
Highway incidents	1329		Poisonings, toxic effects	218
Collision between vehicles, mobile equipment	644		Open wounds	635
Non-collision incidents	297		Gunshot wounds	535
Non-highway incident, except rail, air, water	342		Burns (heat, chemical, etc.)	138
Overturned	165		Multiple traumatic injuries	2129
Worker struck by vehicle, mobile equipment	372		Intracranial injuries and injuries to internal organs	511
Fires and explosions	201
Assaults and violent acts	754
Homicides	516
ALL INDUSTRY			FALLS-ALL IND.
2003	5575		2003	696
2004	5764		2004	822
2005	5737		2005	770
2006	5703		2006	809
CONSTRUCTION			HWY. TRANSP.
2003	1131		2003	1169
2004	1234		2004	1229
2005	1192		2005	1265
2006	1226		2006	1167
			TOTAL TRANSP.	2413
MANF.
2003	420		2006 - OHIO WORK FATAL - BLS
2004	463
2005	393
2006	447
			Total:	193
MINING			Primary source (2) (8) :
2003	141		Vehicles	(P) 73
2004	152		Highway vehicles	(P) 53
2005	159		Automobiles	(P) 13
2006	190		Trucks	(P) 31
			Event or exposure (8) :
AGRICULTURE			Contact with objects and equipment	(P) 54
2003	709		Struck by object	(P) 30
2004	669		Struck by falling object	(P) 22
2005	715		Caught in or compressed by equipment	(P) 18
2006	646		Caught in running equipment or machinery	(P) 13
			Falls	(P) 22
HISPANIC			Fall to lower level	(P) 22
2003	794		Fall from ladder
2004	902		Fall from roof	(P) 5
2005	923		Fall from scaffold, staging	(P) 4
2006	937

 

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