Number of fatal work injuries by employee status, 2003 17 · View data Note: Rate = (Fatal work...

4,405 4,587 4,592 4,808 4,6134,183

3,488 3,651 3,642 3,571 3,635 3,728 3,7514,098 4,069

1,170 1,177 1,142 1,032

1,044

1,031

1,063 1,039 1,051 1,057 950 1,093 1,085

1,092 1,078

0

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2,000

3,000

4,000

5,000

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7,000

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Wage and salary Self-employed

5,8405,657

4,585

5,147

Number of fatal work injuries by employee status, 2003–17

• A total of 5,147 workers died from an occupational injury in 2017.• This number decreased by 1 percent from 2016.• Self-employed workers have consistently accounted for around one-fifth of fatal work injuries.

1Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018.

5,575 5,764 5,734

5,214

4,551 4,690 4,693 4,6284,821 4,836

5,190

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Note: Rate = (Fatal work injuries/Total hours worked by all workers) x 200,000,000 where 200,000,000 = base for 100,000 full-time equivalent workers (FTEs) working 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year. The total hours worked are annual average estimates from the Current Population Survey (CPS).In 2008, CFOI implemented a new methodology, using hours worked for fatal work injury rate calculations rather than employment. For additional information on the fatal work injury rate methodology, please see www.bls.gov/iif/oshnotice10.htm. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2018.

Rate of fatal work injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers by employee status, 2006–17

• The 2017 all-worker fatal work injury rate was 3.5 fatal work injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalentworkers (FTEs).

• The rate for self-employed workers has consistently been higher than that of all workers since the adoptionof hours-based rates.

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4.2 4.0 3.7 3.5 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.6 3.5

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11.6

12.7 12.613.1 12.8

11.8

13.613.1 13.1 13.1

3.7 3.5 3.22.8 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 3.0 2.9

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4

5

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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Self-employed

All Workers

Wage and salary

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• More fatal work injuries resulted from transportation incidents than from any other event in 2017.• Roadway incidents alone accounted for about one out of every four fatal work injuries.

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Fatal occupational injuries by major event, 2017

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018.

Falls to lower level713

Homicides458

Roadway incidents1,299

349

174

778

123

531

695

807

887

2,077

Fires and explosions

Falls, slips, trips

Transportation incidents

0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500

Exposure to harmful substancesor environments

Contact with objects and equipment

Violence and other injuries by persons or animals

Number of fatal work injuries

Total = 5,147

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35

13

-6

-59

-66

-43

-80 -60 -40 -20 0 20 40 60

Change in fatal work injury counts by event, 2016–17

• The all-event total for 2017 was lower by 43 cases over the 2016 total.• Falls, slips, and trips saw the greatest increase from 2016.

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Violence and other injuries by persons or animals

Falls, slips, trips

Exposure to harmful substances or environments

ALL EVENTS

2017 Total = 5,147

2016 Total = 5,190


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12%13%

17%

13%

8%

7%

17%

14%

0%

2%

4%

6%

8%

10%

12%

14%

16%

18%

20%

Less than 6 6 to 10 11 to 15 16 to 20 21 to 25 26 to 30 More than 30 Unspecified

Height of fall (feet)

Percent of fatal falls to lower level by height of fall, 2017

• A total of 713 work-related fatal falls to lower level were recorded in 2017, up 2 percent from 2016.• Of the cases where height of fall was known (614 cases), 48 percent were falls of 15 feet or less.• About one in five falls with a known height were from more than 30 feet.

Total = 713

5Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018.Note: Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding.

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14

48

68

126

209

313

636

663

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800

Other transportation incidents

Rail vehicle incidents

Water vehicle incidents

Aircraft incidents

Nonroadway incidents

Pedestrian vehicular incidents

Other roadway incidents

Roadway collision with another vehicle

Fatal occupational injuries due to transportation incidents, 2017

• Transportation incidents decreased from 2,083 in 2016 to 2,077 in 2017.• Together, roadway collisions with another vehicle and other roadway incidents account for about 63

percent of fatal work-related transportation injuries.

Total = 2,077

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122

110

137 135142 141

73

56

78

6471

68 67

49

79

66

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53 63

76

36

18

62

24 21 18

36

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80

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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

How workers died in multiple-fatality incidents by selected events, 2011–17

• A total of 164 multiple-fatality incidents were recorded in 2017 (incidents in which more than oneworker was killed).

• These incidents resulted in 400 worker deaths.

Note: Not all event categories shown.Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018.

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Roadway incidents

Aircraft incidents

Homicides


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Men 56%

Women44%

Men 93%

Fatal work injuries and hours worked by gender of worker, 2017

• A disproportionate share of fatal work injuries involved men relative to their hours worked in 2017.• Men had a fatal work injury rate of 5.7 deaths per 100,000 full time equivalent workers while the rate for

women was 0.6.

Women 7%

Hours worked = 285,976,849,170Fatal work injuries = 5,147

8Note: Fatal injury rates exclude workers under the age of 16 years, volunteers, and resident military. The number of fatal work injuries represents total published fatal injuries before the exclusions. For additional information on the fatal work injury rate methodology, please see www.bls.gov/iif/oshnotice10.htm.Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2018.

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Distribution of fatal injury events by gender of worker, 2017

• Women experienced a higher proportion of fatal injuries due to homicides relative to men.• Men incurred a higher proportion of injuries from falls, slips, and trips and contact with objects and equipment.

Roadway incidents

Homicides

Falls, slips, trips

Exposure to harmful substances or environments


Fires and explosions2%

8%

10%

14%

17%

25%

2%

22%

9%

5%

14%

25%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%

Women = 386

Men = 4,761

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018.Note: Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding.

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Percent of work-related homicides by gender of decedent and assailant type, 2017

24%

13%

7%

14%

23%

18%

2%

12%

8%

17%

30% 30%

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

Relative ordomestic partner

Student, patient, orcustomer/client

Inmate, detainee,or suspect not yet

apprehended

Co-worker or workassociate

Other orunspecified

assailant

Robber

Women = 83 Men = 375

• Relatives or domestic partners were the most frequent assailant in work-related homicides involving women.• Robbers were the most common work-related homicide assailant for men.


Note: Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding..

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Fatal work injuries involving Hispanic or Latino workers, 2003–17

• Fatal work injuries involving Hispanic or Latino workers increased in 2017.• Over 60 percent of fatally-injured Hispanic or Latino workers in 2017 were born outside of the United States.

520596 638 667 634

503429 441

512 484542 513

605 588 568

274

306285

323303

301

284 266237 264

275 291

298 291 335

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1,200

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Foreign-born Native-born

903

794

902

990923 937

804

713 707749 748

817 804

903


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2011N=843

2012N=824

2013N=879

2014N=846

2015N=943

2016N=970

2017N=927

Mexico Asia CentralAmerica

(exc. Mexico)

Europe Caribbean Africa SouthAmerica

Fatal injuries involving foreign-born workers by country or region of birth, 2011–17

• About one-fifth of fatalities in 2017 were to foreign-born workers.• Fatalities involving workers born in Central America (exc. Mexico) increased in 2017 to 154.

Note: Not all countries or regions of birth are shown.Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018.

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16 to 17 18 to 19 20 to 24 25 to 34 35 to 44 45 to 54 55 to 64 65 and over

Age group

Rate of fatal work injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers by age group, 2017

• Workers age 65 and over had the highest fatal injury rate of all workers.• The largest number of fatal work injuries involved workers in the 55 to 64 and 45 to 54 age groups.

Note: Fatal injury rates exclude workers under the age of 16 years, volunteers, and resident military. For additional information on the fatal work injury rate methodology, please see www.bls.gov/iif/oshnotice10.htm.Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2018.

All-worker fatal work injury rate = 3.5

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43

101

112

174

189

205

262

287

303

473

532

581

882

971

2.6

1.6

1.0

12.9

4.8

0.8

2.9

2.2

2.0

1.9

2.0

3.0

23.0

15.1

9.5

Utilities

Information

Financial activities

Wholesale trade

Educational and health services

Other services (exc. public admin.)

Leisure and hospitality

Retail trade

Manufacturing

Government

Professional and business services

Transportation and warehousing

Construction

Note: Fatal injury rates exclude workers under the age of 16 years, volunteers, and resident military. The number of fatal work injuries represents total published fatal injuries before the exclusions. For additional information on the fatal work injury rate methodology, please see www.bls.gov/iif/oshnotice10.htm.Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2018.

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Fatal work injury rate(per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers)

Total fatal work injuries = 5,147

All-worker fatal injury rate = 3.5


Number and rate of fatal work injuries by industry sector, 2017

• Private construction had the highest count of fatal injuries in 2017, but the private agriculture, forestry,fishing and hunting sector had the highest fatal work injury rate.

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

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6%

8%

14%

14%

16%

19%

47%

16%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

Farming, fishing, and forestry

Transportation and material moving

Protective service

Installation, maintenance, and repair

Production

Construction and extraction

All workers

Percentage

Contracted workers as a percentage of all fatally-injuredworkers in selected occupation groups, 2017

• There were 811 fatally-injured contracted workers in 2017, which accounted for 16 percent of all fatalities.• Construction and extraction occupations had the highest percentage of fatally-injured workers who were

contracted at the time of the incident at 47 percent.


Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

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Fatal occupational injuries in the private sector mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry, 2003–17

• Fatal work injuries in the private mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry increased by 26 percentto 112 in 2017.

• Oil and gas extraction industries accounted for 72 percent of the fatal work injuries in this sector in 2017.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018.Note: Oil and gas extraction industries include oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21111), drilling oil and gas wells (NAICS 213111), and support activities for oil and gas operations (NAICS 213112).

8598 98

125 122 120

68

107 112142

112

144

8963

81

5654 61

67 61 56

31

65 43

39

43

39

31

26

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100

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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Oil and gas extraction industries All other mining

112

141152

192

159

183176

99

172

155

181

155

183

120

89

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221

229

232

264

414

425

778

965

1,443

0.6

2.6

0.7

1.6

20.9

8.1

1.6

3.3

12.2

15.9

1,500 1,000 500 0 10 20 30

Office and administrative support

Production

Professional and related

Sales and related

Farming, fishing, and forestry

Installation, maintenance, and repair

Service

Construction and extraction

Transportation and material moving

Note: Fatal injury rates exclude workers under the age of 16 years, volunteers, and resident military. The number of fatal work injuries represents total published fatal injuries before exclusions. For additional information on the fatal work injury rate methodology, please see www.bls.gov/iif/oshnotice10.htm.Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2018.

Number and rate of fatal occupational injuries to civilian workersby major occupation group, 2017

• Transportation and material moving occupations had the highest number of fatal work injuries in 2017.• Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations had the highest fatal work injury rate in 2017.

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Management, business, and financialoperations



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26

53

258

987

14

30

91

59

55

41

18.7

21.0

24.0

26.8

33.4

35.0

45.2

48.6

84.3

99.8

Electrical power-line installers and repairers

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

Structural iron and steel workers

Refuse and recyclable material collectors

Roofers

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers

Logging workers

Fishers and related fishing workers

50 100500 15001,000 750

Civilian occupations with high fatal work injury rates, 2017

Note: Fatal injury rates exclude workers under the age of 16 years, volunteers, and resident military. The number of fatal work injuries represents total published fatal injuries before exclusions. For additional information on the fatal work injury rate methodology, please see www.bls.gov/iif/oshnotice10.htm.Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2018.

• Fishers and related fishing workers and logging workers had the highest published rates of fatal injury in 2017.• Driver/sales workers and truck drivers incurred the greatest number of fatal injuries.





18

250

Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers

First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers

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87

87

91

95

101

106

109

121

258

259

840

0 200 400 600 800

Light truck or delivery services drivers

Maintenance and repair workers, general

Roofers

Police and sheriff's patrol officers

Carpenters

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand

Landscaping and groundskeeping workers

Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers

Construction laborers

Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers


Violence and other injuries bypersons or animals

Falls, slips, trips

Contact with objects orequipment

Other events

661

85

115

41

42

33

64

47

75

28

72

Civilian occupations with high fatal injury counts by leading event, 2017

• The 11 occupations with highest fatal injury counts accounted for 42 percent of all fatal injuries in 2017.• Transportation incidents caused the highest share of fatal injuries in four of the occupations with high fatal injury

counts shown.• Falls, slips, and trips were the leading cause of death in five of the eleven, four of which were construction

occupations.


First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers

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• Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia had more fatal injuries in 2017 than in 2016; twenty-seven states had fewer. California and Maine had the same total for both years.

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Number of fatal work injuries by state, 2017

No Change

AL(83)

AK(33)

AZ(90) AR

(76)

CA(376)

CO(77)

CT(35)

DE(10)

DC(13)

FL(299)

GA(194)

HI(20)

ID(37)

IL(163)

IN(138)

IA(72)

KS(72)

KY(70)

LA(117)

ME(18)

MD(87)

MA(108)MI(153)

MN(101)

MS(90)

MO(125)

MT(32)

NE(35)NV

(32)

NH(11)

NJ(69)

NM(44)

NY(313)

NC(183)

ND(38)

OH(174)

OK(91)

OR(60)

PA(172)

RI(8)

SC(88)

SD(30)

TN(128)

TX(534)

UT(43)

VT(22)

VA(118)

WA(84)

WV(51)

WI(106)

WY(20)


Fewer than in 2016More than in 2016No Change from 2016

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• In 2017, over 23,400 source documents helped identify and verify information on 5,147 fatal work injuries,an average of 4.6 source documents per fatal injury case.

Sources of data on fatal work injuries, 2017


238

671

1,051

1,265

1,401

1,886

3,304

3,400

4,987

5,238

0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000

State follow-up

Other government

Police

State workers' compensation

Toxicology

OSHA

News media

Coroner/Medical examiner/Autopsy

Death certificate

All other

Number of Documents

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