Table 23. Incidence rates for nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work per 10,000 full-time workers by selected worker occupation and selected events or exposures leading to injury or illness, 2008
TABLE 23. Incidence rates(1) for nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work(2) per 10,000 full-time workers by selected worker occupation(3) and selected events or exposures leading to injury or illness, 2008
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| | Contact with objects | | | | Overexertion | | | Transportation | | Assaults and violent acts |
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Occupation | Total | | | | | Fall | Fall | Slips | | | |Exposure to| | | | | |
| cases | | | | | to | on | or | | | Repetitive| harmful | | | Fires | | | All other assaults | All
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| | | Struck | Struck | Caught in | lower | same | trips | | | motion | substance | | | and | | | | other
| | Total | by | against | or | level | level | without | Total | In lifting| | or | | Highway | explosions| Total | By | | | events(5)
| | | object | object | compressed| | | fall | | | |environment| Total | accident | | | person | | Assaults |
| | | | | or crushed| | | | | | | | | | | | | Total | by |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | animal |
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Total [1,078,140 cases]......| 113.3 | 30.7 | 16.1 | 7.4 | 5.2 | 7.1 | 16.6 | 3.7 | 26.4 | 13.7 | 3.2 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 13.1
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Nursing aides, orderlies, and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
attendants...................| 449.0 | 49.3 | 27.3 | 13.8 | 5.8 | 6.5 | 74.0 | 13.5 | 216.8 | 89.5 | 2.2 | 11.6 | 3.4 | 3.0 | - | 29.4 | 28.8 | .6 | .4 | 42.3
Laborers and freight, stock, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
and material movers, hand ...| 440.3 | 155.1 | 81.5 | 31.7 | 33.4 | 17.8 | 39.3 | 9.8 | 130.9 | 76.5 | 8.8 | 10.5 | 18.9 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 1.2 | .7 | .6 | .5 | 45.9
Emergency medical technicians | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
and paramedics...............| 387.0 | 17.5 | 10.8 | 4.0 | 2.4 | 10.6 | 24.4 | 6.5 | 230.4 | 158.0 | 1.8 | 12.6 | 24.3 | 21.2 | - | 6.5 | 4.7 | 1.9 | - | 52.4
Construction laborers.........| 383.1 | 152.1 | 99.6 | 26.0 | 14.3 | 42.1 | 32.4 | 10.9 | 71.0 | 36.7 | 3.4 | 12.7 | 14.2 | 4.8 | 1.8 | .9 | .3 | .6 | .6 | 41.7
Truck drivers, heavy and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
tractor-trailer..............| 362.0 | 71.0 | 39.2 | 17.8 | 9.2 | 37.2 | 49.5 | 14.3 | 76.8 | 28.6 | 2.9 | 7.3 | 55.0 | 40.5 | .7 | 1.4 | .9 | .5 | .5 | 45.9
Reservation and transportation| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
ticket agents and travel | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
clerks.......................| 353.8 | 89.3 | 44.5 | 26.9 | 13.4 | 12.2 | 38.3 | 9.8 | 141.5 | 90.3 | 4.0 | 1.7 | 23.9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 32.7
Roofers.......................| 349.2 | 108.0 | 70.9 | 21.7 | 5.1 | 81.8 | 25.9 | 12.7 | 55.0 | 33.5 | 6.1 | 15.2 | 8.7 | 7.1 | - | - | - | - | - | 34.4
Cooks, institution and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
cafeteria....................| 330.7 | 85.6 | 61.4 | 21.0 | 2.0 | 6.1 | 86.4 | 10.2 | 52.5 | 39.5 | 23.6 | 46.0 | - | - | - | 1.4 | - | 1.4 | - | 18.8
Truck drivers, light or | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
delivery services............| 323.8 | 64.1 | 40.2 | 14.2 | 6.2 | 21.3 | 35.7 | 12.1 | 94.5 | 50.2 | 5.2 | 2.6 | 39.4 | 30.2 | - | 3.5 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 45.1
Industrial machinery mechanics| 299.9 | 104.2 | 52.5 | 17.5 | 26.3 | 12.5 | 33.3 | 8.8 | 76.6 | 46.7 | 3.8 | 12.0 | 15.0 | 12.2 | - | - | - | - | - | 33.3
Food servers, nonrestaurant...| 298.4 | 90.5 | 59.0 | 19.5 | 7.8 | 8.5 | 78.6 | 16.7 | 53.1 | 32.2 | 5.0 | 20.7 | 2.3 | - | - | 1.8 | 1.7 | - | - | 21.2
Welders, cutters, solderers, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
and brazers..................| 292.1 | 133.5 | 74.2 | 11.7 | 30.1 | 12.8 | 15.5 | 4.0 | 56.1 | 27.2 | 9.5 | 31.1 | 1.5 | - | 2.4 | - | - | - | - | 25.3
Maids and housekeeping | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
cleaners.....................| 277.7 | 51.7 | 26.3 | 19.1 | 4.6 | 15.1 | 68.1 | 15.3 | 64.4 | 28.0 | 7.5 | 9.1 | 2.5 | .6 | - | 3.1 | .5 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 40.8
Automotive service technicians| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
and mechanics................| 254.2 | 124.5 | 60.0 | 42.8 | 10.0 | 6.8 | 19.5 | 6.8 | 51.4 | 32.2 | 2.9 | 11.9 | 6.4 | 3.4 | .9 | 2.6 | - | 2.1 | 2.1 | 20.5
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs...| 251.8 | 24.6 | 15.2 | 6.9 | - | 13.0 | 36.0 | 4.1 | 51.0 | 21.6 | - | 4.8 | 101.7 | 92.1 | - | 3.7 | 3.3 | - | - | 12.5
Heating, air conditioning, and| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
refrigeration mechanics and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
installers...................| 243.9 | 66.9 | 31.6 | 23.5 | 5.5 | 35.5 | 11.0 | 9.4 | 50.5 | 22.6 | 4.8 | 16.0 | 7.4 | 7.4 | - | - | - | - | - | 41.7
Janitors and cleaners, except | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
maids and housekeeping | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
cleaners.....................| 243.0 | 53.3 | 24.5 | 14.0 | 9.0 | 24.6 | 35.5 | 9.9 | 64.1 | 36.6 | 3.8 | 14.0 | 8.4 | 6.6 | .7 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 26.3
Plumbers, pipefitters, and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
steamfitters.................| 241.4 | 73.5 | 46.5 | 16.1 | 6.6 | 23.9 | 15.3 | 4.5 | 57.8 | 33.8 | 2.1 | 15.9 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 3.9 | .9 | - | .8 | .8 | 38.6
Carpenters....................| 235.7 | 101.8 | 61.4 | 22.9 | 10.5 | 27.2 | 13.6 | 7.7 | 48.8 | 25.4 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 1.0 | - | .2 | - | .2 | .2 | 27.2
Butchers and meat cutters.....| 234.2 | 121.3 | 55.3 | 28.1 | 27.3 | - | 25.6 | 4.1 | 53.7 | 40.9 | 8.7 | - | - | - | 5.5 | - | - | - | - | 10.7
Bus and truck mechanics and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
diesel engine specialists....| 230.6 | 86.5 | 54.4 | 15.3 | 10.5 | 13.8 | 18.5 | 4.4 | 52.1 | 32.7 | 1.9 | 13.2 | 4.4 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 3.0 | - | - | 31.1
Telecommunications line | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
installers and repairers.....| 230.6 | 22.7 | 13.5 | 7.8 | - | 37.2 | 23.7 | 10.8 | 53.5 | 25.3 | 5.2 | 9.1 | 22.9 | 22.6 | - | 5.2 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 40.2
Maintenance and repair | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
workers, general.............| 212.7 | 69.6 | 37.0 | 16.4 | 11.6 | 16.0 | 20.4 | 5.6 | 49.2 | 24.4 | 5.6 | 10.8 | 9.1 | 6.2 | .5 | .8 | .2 | .6 | .6 | 25.1
Sheet metal workers...........| 211.7 | 84.0 | 34.5 | 24.0 | 12.9 | 31.9 | 20.9 | 7.3 | 34.7 | 23.1 | 4.4 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.4 | - | - | - | - | - | 24.7
Painters, construction and | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
maintenance..................| 209.9 | 50.4 | 24.3 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 57.8 | 11.0 | 5.6 | 37.3 | 10.3 | 10.5 | 11.9 | 1.2 | 1.0 | - | - | - | - | - | 24.0
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1 Incidence rates represent the number of injuries and illnesses per 10,000 full-time workers and were calculated as: (N/EH) x 20,000,000 where
N =number of injuries and illnesses
EH =total hours worked by all employees
during the calendar year
20,000,000=base for 10,000 equivalent full-time workers
(working 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year)
2 Days-away-from-work cases include those that resulted in days away from work, some of which also included job transfer or restriction.
3 These occupations have at least 0.1% of full-time equivalent employment.
4 Data shown in columns correspond to the following Event codes: Contact with objects, Total = 00-09; Struck by object = 020-029; Struck against object = 010-019; Caught in or compressed or crushed = 030-049; Fall to lower level = 110-119; Fall on same level =
130-139; Slips or trips without fall = 215; Overexertion, Total = 220-229; In lifting = 221; Repetitive motion = 230-239; Exposure to harmful substance or environment = 30-39; Transportation accidents = 40-49; Highway accident = 41; Fires and explosions = 50-52;
Assaults and violent acts, Total = 60-63; Assaults by person = 61; All other assaults = 60, 62, and 63; Assaults by animal = 63; All other events = all remaining codes, including 9999 (Nonclassifiable). These codes are based on the Occupational Injury and Illness
Classification System developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
5 Includes nonclassifiable responses.
NOTE: Dash indicates data do not meet publication guidelines. Because of rounding and data exclusion of nonclassifiable responses, data may not sum to the totals.
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses in cooperation with participating State agencies
Last Modified Date: December 04, 2009
United States Department of Labor
