The CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) last week posted two documents on Fatal Injuries to Civilian Workers in the United States, 1980-1995, one on the national profile and the other focused on the national and state profiles. The reports cover sixteen years of data (1980-1995) from the National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities (NTOF) surveillance system. NIOSH reports that from 1980 to 1995, more than 93,000 US workers were fatally injured on the job, an average of sixteen people a day. The leading cause of occupational injury fatality was motor vehicle crashes, though the leading cause for women and black workers was homicide. Both reports include a number of tables, appendices, and references.
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