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Chapter 9.
Occupational Safety and Health Statistics

Technical References
Abraham, Katharine G., William L. Weber, and Martin E. Personick, "Improvements in the BLS Safety and Health Statistical Program," Monthly Labor Review, April 1996, pp. 3-12.

Evaluating Your Firm's Injury and Illness Record. Guides to assist employers in comparing their injury and illness experience to others with similar size workforces in the same industry.

Fatal Workplace Injuries: A Collection of Data and Analysis. Reports issued annually containing topical articles prepared by several States and BLS staff as well as detailed tables from the BLS census.

Occupational Injury and Illness Classification Manual, December 1992. Detailed BLS coding structures used to classify the characteristics of workplace injuries and illnesses resulting in death or lost worktime. Available on the Internet, along with explanatory article, at http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshoiics.htm

Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics. Bulletins issued annually. (Prior to 1992, Occupational Injuries and Illnesses in the United States by Industry.)

"Older Workers' Injuries Entail Lengthy Absences From Work," BLS Summary 96-6. One of several short papers on worker safety published under Issues in Labor Statistics, a continuing BLS series highlighting major trends of American workers and consumers.

Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Summary of counts and rates by detailed industry, issued annually a few months after news release, "Workplace injuries and illnesses."

Toscano, Guy A. and Janice Windau, "The Changing Character of Fatal Work Injuries," Monthly Labor Review, October 1994, pp. 17-28.

Toscano, Guy A. and Janice Windau, "Fatal Work Injuries from the 1992 National Census," Monthly Labor Review, October 1993, pp. 39-48.

U.S. Department of Labor, Report on the American Workforce, chapter 3, "Safety and Health in the Workplace," 1994.

U.S. Department of Labor, Recordkeeping Guidelines for Occupational Injuries and Illness.

"Workplace injuries and illnesses," "Characteristics of injuries and illnesses resulting in absences from work," and "National census of fatal occupational injuries." News releases issued annually. Available for 1994 forward on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/iif/.

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