[net-gold] [Workers' Compensation] US Workplace Deaths Decrease

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:27:02 -0400 (EDT)

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:27:18 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [Net-Gold] [Workers' Compensation] US Workplace Deaths Decrease

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[Workers' Compensation]
US Workplace Deaths Decrease

A preliminary total of 4,340 fatal
work injuries were recorded in the
United States in 2009, down from a
final count of 5,214 fatal work
injuries in 2008. The 2009 total
represents the smallest annual
preliminary total since the Census
of Fatal Occupational Injuries
(CFOI) program was first conducted
in 1992. Based on this preliminary
count, the rate of fatal work injury
for U.S. workers in 2009 was 3.3
per 100,000 full-time equivalent
(FTE) workers, down from a final rate
of 3.7 in 2008. Counts and rates
are likely to increase with the
release of final 2009 CFOI results
in April 2011. Over the last 2
years, increases in the published
counts based on information received
after the publication of preliminary
results have averaged 156 fatalities
per year or about 3 percent of the
revised totals.

Economic factors played a major role
in the fatal work injury decrease
in 2009. Total hours worked fell by
6 percent in 2009 following a 1
percent decline in 2008, and some
industries that have historically
accounted for a significant share of
fatal work injuries, such as
construction, experienced even larger
declines in employment or hours
worked. In addition, some source
documents used by CFOI State partners
to identify and verify fatal work
injuries were delayed, due at least
in part to fiscal constraints at some
of the governmental agencies who
regularly provide source documentation
for the program.

Key preliminary findings of the 2009
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries:

- Workplace homicides declined
1 percent in 2009, in contrast to an
overall decline of 17 percent for
all fatal work injuries. The homicide
total for 2009 includes the 13 victims
of the November shooting at Fort
Hood. Workplace suicides were down
10 percent in 2009 from the series
high of 263 in 2008.

- Though wage and salary workers
and self-employed workers experienced
similar declines in total hours worked
in 2009, fatal work injuries among wage
and salary workers in 2009 declined by
20 percent while fatal injuries among
self-employed workers were down 3 percent.
- The wholesale trade industry was one
of the few major private industry sectors
reporting higher numbers of fatal work
injuries in 2009.

- Fatal work injuries in the private
construction sector declined by 16
percent in 2009 following the decline
of 19 percent in 2008.- Fatalities among
non-Hispanic black or African-American
workers were down 24 percent. This worker
group also experienced a slightly larger
decline in total hours worked than
non-Hispanic white or Hispanic workers.
- The number of fatal workplace injuries
in building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance occupations rose 6 percent,
one of the few major occupation groups to
record an increase in fatal work injuries
in 2009.

- Transportation incidents, which
accounted for nearly two-fifths of
all the fatal work injuries in 2009,
fell 21 percent from the 2,130
fatal work injuries reported in 2008.
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