Work-Related and Non-Work-Related Injury Deaths in the U.S.: A Comparative Study

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• Personal Author:
  Chen G ; Jenkins L ; Johnston JJ ; Marsh S
• Description:
  This study assesses the percentage of traumatic fatalities attributable to work-related causes in the US, by cause of death and population demographics. The 1993-1998 Vital Statistics Mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics were used. There were 848,945 traumatic fatalities (E800-E999) among the general population 16 years or older in the US during this time; of these, 32,044 were work-related accounting for 3.8%, of all the fatalities. The work-related percentage varied from 62.7% for machine-related deaths to 0.7% for suicides, from 4.9% for males to 1.0% for females, from 9.8% in Alaska to 1.5% in Arizona, from 4.2% for decedents with 1 to 4 year college educations to 2.9% for decedents with high school or less, from 4.4% for races other than white and black to 2.6% for black. Mean age-at-death was 42 years for work-related vs. 48 years for non-work- related fatalities. This difference is more pronounced for deaths from falls (45 years vs. 78 years). Conversely, victims of work-related homicide were older than non-work-related (41 years vs. 33 years). A more complete understanding of the burden of traumatic fatalities attributable to work-related causes requires consideration of the total work-related percentage, cause of death, and population demographic. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Demography Epidemiology Mortality Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Injury Mortality Demographic-characteristics Etiologic Fraction Fatality Mortality-data Mortality-rates Mortality-surveys Mortality Surveillance Occupational Injury Mortality Statistical-analysis
• ISSN:
  1080-7039
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20021701
• Citation:
  Hum Ecol Risk Assess 2001 Dec; 7(7):1859-1868
• Contact Point Address:
  Guang-Xiang Chen, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Safety Research, 1095 Willowdale Road, MS/H-1811, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26505
• Email:
  gchen@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Hum Ecol Risk Assess
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e9f1caa2b619816cd59ceccacdec13be07db8cc2bf01dbf576bf9655fa35ee008642f3153df201356c38482532ae3cf388441169213e4eefcffb68d0e9373cd7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/198817/cdc_198817_DS1.pdf
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