Fatal Occupational Injuries – United States, 1980–1997

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  CDC monitors deaths from occupational injuries through the National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities (NTOF) surveillance system. This report provides an overview of traumatic occupational deaths among civilian workers from NTOF from 1980 through 1997, the most recent year for which data are available. The data presented in this report indicate a decrease in occupational deaths over this period with mining, agriculture/forestry/fishing, and construction having the highest death rates; motor-vehicle crashes were the leading cause of injury-related deaths for U.S. workers. State health departments and others involved in prevention of occupational injuries can use the data to prioritize intervention programs. NTOF contains information obtained from death certificates from the vital statistics reporting units in the 50 states, New York City, and the District of Columbia. Crude death rates per 100,000 workers were calculated as the number of deaths among civilian workers for each year divided by the number of employed civilians for each year. Employment estimates for rate calculations were obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Current Population Survey (CPS), a population-based, household-sample survey of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population. These data were extracted from the BLS Employment and Earnings and the CPS monthly microdata files. Employment data used for rate calculations were based on the number of workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Geology Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-rates Age-groups Agriculture Construction-industry Fishing-industry Forestry Information-retrieval-systems Injuries Injury-prevention Mining-industry Mortality-data Mortality-rates Motor-vehicles Occupational-accidents Occupations Racial-factors Region-3 Region-4 Region-5 Region-6 Region-8 Region-9 Region-10 Sex-factors Surveillance-programs Traumatic-injuries Workers

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• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• Volume:
  50
• Issue:
  16
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20021690
• Citation:
  MMWR 2001 Apr; 50(16):317-320
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  1141 - Fishing - (NAICS)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b4c187f8e4e60f45b0d51b38a656588fbc7fbe898f83610fe9df72a203dc33daf68548a4f58158c239dd51d7c2501bbe3e9bb5c3769b82f3b42ed5e09e4c6d59
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/183100/cdc_183100_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 45.66 KB ]