Table 2. Number, percent, and rate of fatal occupational injuries by selected1 occupation, 1994. The rates are experimental measures using CPS employment. Occupation2 Fatalities Employed3 Fatalities per (in thousands) Number Percent 100,000 employed4 Total 6,588 100.0 124,469 5 Managerial and professional specialty 768 11.7 33,847 2 Executive, administrative, and managerial 486 7.4 16,312 3 Managers, food serving and lodging places 74 1.1 1,255 6 Professional specialty 282 4.3 17,536 2 Technical, sales, and administrative support 943 14.3 37,306 3 Technicians and related support occupations 209 3.2 3,869 5 Airplane pilots and navigators 131 2.0 104 126 Sales occupations 588 8.9 14,817 4 Supervisors and proprietors 249 3.8 4,443 6 Sales counter clerks 27 .4 209 13 Cashiers 110 1.7 2,745 4 News vendors 23 .3 130 15 Administrative support jobs, including clerical 146 2.2 18,620 1 Messengers 25 .4 147 17 Service occupations 601 9.1 16,912 4 Protective service occupations 332 5.0 2,249 15 Fire fighting and prevention jobs, including supervisors 56 .9 260 22 Police and detectives, including supervisors 149 2.3 1,077 14 Guards, including supervisors 127 1.9 911 14 Farming, forestry, and fishing 944 14.3 3,629 26 Farm operators and managers 382 5.8 1,453 26 Other agricultural and related occupations 360 5.5 2,176 16 Farm workers, including supervisors 261 4.0 795 31 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm 78 1.2 864 9 Forestry and logging occupations 137 2.1 132 104 Timber cutting and logging occupations 112 1.7 86 130 Fishers, hunters, and trappers 65 1.0 52 125 Fishers 55 .8 42 131 Precision production, craft, and repair 1,090 16.5 13,489 8 Mechanics and repairers 294 4.5 4,419 7 Automobile mechanics 49 .7 864 6 Heavy equipment mechanics 24 .4 151 16 Construction trades 614 9.3 5,008 12 Carpenters 87 1.3 1,265 7 Electricians 99 1.5 659 15 Electrical power installers and repairers 35 .5 116 30 Painters, construction and maintenance 40 .6 543 7 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters 39 .6 508 8 Roofers 53 .8 180 29 Structural metal workers 48 .7 49 98 Extractive occupations 76 1.2 142 54 Drillers, oil wells 22 .3 26 85 Mining machine operators 29 .4 39 74 Operators, fabricators, and laborers 2,055 31.2 17,876 11 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors 256 3.9 7,754 3 Welders and cutters 67 1.0 577 12 Transportation and material moving occupations 1,169 17.7 5,136 23 Motor vehicle operators 925 14.0 3,882 24 Truck drivers 762 11.6 2,815 27 Drivers--sales workers 29 .4 164 18 Taxicab drivers and chauffeurs 113 1.7 241 47 Water transportation occupations 42 .6 68 62 Sailors and deckhands 25 .4 27 89 Material moving equipment operators 172 2.6 1,078 16 Operating engineers 41 .6 237 17 Excavating and loading machine operators 22 .3 95 23 Grader, dozer, and scraper operators 23 .3 88 26 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators 39 .6 483 8 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 630 9.6 4,986 13 Construction laborers 247 3.7 740 33 Garbage collectors 22 .3 50 44 Garage and service station related occupations 23 .3 184 13 Laborers, except construction 229 3.5 1,240 18 Military 109 1.7 1,409 8 1 Selected occupations had more than 20 reported work injury fatalities in 1994. 2 Based on the 1990 population census occupation classification system developed by the Bureau of the Census. 3 The employment figures, except for military, are annual average estimates of employed civilians 16 years of age and older, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey (CPS), 1994. The resident military figure, derived from resident and civilian population data from the Bureau of the Census, was added to the CPS employment total. CPS data for 1994 are not directly comparable with data for 1993 and earlier years because of the introduction of a major redesign of the survey questionnaire and collection methodology, and the introduction of 1990 census- based population controls adjusted for the estimated undercount. For additional information, see "Revisions in the Current Population Survey Effective January 1994," in the February 1994 issue of Employment and Earnings. 4 The rate represents the number of fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 employed workers and was calculated as follows: (N/W) x 100,000, where N = the number of fatal work injuries, and W = the number of employed workers, as described in the previous footnote. There were 25 fatally injured workers under the age of 16 years that were not included in the rate calculations to maintain consistency with the CPS employment. NOTE: Totals for major categories may include subcategories not shown separately. Figures may not add to totals because of rounding. There were 79 fatalities for which there was insufficient information to determine an occupation classification. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 1994.