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March 2004

Occupational fatalities: self-employed workers and wage and salary workers

Stephen M. Pegula

Although making up just 7.4 percent of the U.S. civilian workforce in 2001, self-employed workers incurred almost 20 percent of workplace fatalities that year; even in the same industry or occupation, they faced risks different from those of their wage and salary counterparts.

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