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75 percent of occupational injuries in 2014 occurred in service-providing industries
November 03, 2015
In 2014, there were nearly 3 million nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses in private industry. Among those, 2.8 million, or 95.1 percent, were injuries. Nearly 2.1 million injuries, or 75 percent of those in private industry, occurred in service-providing industries. The remaining 700,000 injuries, or 25 percent, occurred in goods-producing industries.
Trade, transportation, and utilities had the most injuries among private industries in 2014, with 770,500. Within this service-providing industry, retail trade had 404,900 injuries, or 3.5 per 100-full-time workers. Among other service-providing industries, health care and social assistance had 575,000 injuries, or 20.5 percent of private industry injuries.
Among goods-producing industries in 2014, manufacturing had the highest number of injuries with 440,500. The number of injuries per 100 full-time workers was 3.6, compared with 3.0 for all private industries. Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting had 5.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers, driven by 6.8 injuries per 100 full-time workers in animal production.
These data are from the Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities program. For more information, see “Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses — 2014” (HTML) (PDF).
United States Department of Labor
