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Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities

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Fatal Occupational Injuries and Workers� Memorial Day

Number and rate of fatal injury

Number of fatal work injuries, 1992–2010
Year	Number of fatal work injuries
1992	6,217
1993	6,331
1994	6,632
1995	6,275
1996	6,202
1997	6,238
1998	6,055
1999	6,054
2000	5,920
2001	5,915
2002	5,534
2003	5,575
2004	5,764
2005	5,734
2006	5,840
2007	5,657
2008	5,214
2009	4,551
2010	4,690

These data are featured in the article, Fatal Occupational Injuries and Workers� Memorial Day.

Four most frequent work-related fatal injury events, 1992–2010
Year	Highway incidents	Homicides	Falls	Struck by object
1992	1,158	1,044	600	557
1993	1,242	1,074	618	565
1994	1,343	1,080	665	591
1995	1,346	1,036	651	547
1996	1,346	927	691	582
1997	1,393	860	716	579
1998	1,442	714	706	520
1999	1,496	651	721	585
2000	1,365	677	734	571
2001	1,409	643	810	553
2002	1,373	609	719	505
2003	1,353	632	696	531
2004	1,398	559	822	602
2005	1,437	567	770	607
2006	1,356	540	827	589
2007	1,414	628	847	504
2008	1,215	526	700	520
2009	985	542	645	420
2010	1,044	518	646	404

These data are featured in the article, Fatal Occupational Injuries and Workers� Memorial Day.

Number and rate of fatal occupational injuries, by industry sector, 2010
Industry	Count	Rate
Construction	774	9.8
Transportation and warehousing	661	13.7
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting	621	27.9
Government	484	2.2
Professional and business services	364	2.6
Manufacturing	329	2.3
Retail trade	311	2.2
Leisure and hospitality	238	2.3
Other services (exc. Public administration)	192	3.0
Wholesale trade	191	4.9
Mining	172	19.8
Educational and health services	171	0.9
Financial activities	113	1.3
Information	43	1.5
Utilities	26	2.8

These data are featured in the article, Fatal Occupational Injuries and Workers� Memorial Day.

Occupations with high fatal work injury rates, 2010
Occupation	Count	Rate
Fishers and related fishing workers	38	152.0
Logging workers	60	93.5
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers	78	70.6
Farmers and ranchers	308	42.5
Mining machine operators	22	37.0
Roofers	57	32.4
Refuse and recyclable material collectors	26	29.8
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers	718	23.0
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers	98	20.7
Police and sheriff's patrol officers	134	18.1

These data are featured in the article, Fatal Occupational Injuries and Workers� Memorial Day.

Number of fatal work injuries, by state, 2010
	2010	2009	Net change
Alabama	92	75	17
Alaska	39	17	22
Arizona	77	76	1
Arkansas	88	75	13
California	326	409	-83
Colorado	85	83	2
Connecticut	49	34	15
Delaware	8	7	1
District of Columbia	16	11	5
Florida	225	245	-20
Georgia	108	110	-2
Hawaii	19	13	6
Idaho	33	27	6
Illinois	206	158	48
Indiana	118	125	-7
Iowa	77	80	-3
Kansas	85	76	9
Kentucky	69	101	-32
Louisiana	111	140	-29
Maine	20	16	4
Maryland	71	65	6
Massachusetts	54	64	-10
Michigan	146	94	52
Minnesota	70	61	9
Mississippi	68	67	1
Missouri	106	142	-36
Montana	36	52	-16
Nebraska	54	57	-3
Nevada	38	24	14
New Hampshire	6	6	0
New Jersey	81	99	-18
New Mexico	38	42	-4
New York State	182	185	-3
North Carolina	139	129	10
North Dakota	30	25	5
Ohio	161	137	24
Oklahoma	94	82	12
Oregon	47	66	-19
Pennsylvania	221	168	53
Rhode Island	9	7	2
South Carolina	69	73	-4
South Dakota	36	24	12
Tennessee	138	111	27
Texas	461	482	-21
Utah	41	48	-7
Vermont	12	12	0
Virginia	107	119	-12
Washington	104	76	28
West Virginia	95	41	54
Wisconsin	91	94	-3
Wyoming	33	19	14

These data are featured in the article, Fatal Occupational Injuries and Workers� Memorial Day.