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Workplace Injury and Death: A National Overview of Changing Trends by Sex, United States 1998–2022

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    Women represent a substantial portion of the US workforce. However, injury and fatality rates for female workers have, historically, remained lower than rates for male workers. Fatal occupational data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) and nonfatal injury data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-Occupational Supplement (NEISS-Work) for the years 1998-2022 were examined to produce rate ratios of male to female fatal and nonfatal occupational injury rates for all workers in the United States. Auto-regressive linear models were developed to analyze rate ratios by sex for fatal and nonfatal occupational injuries by age group, injury event, and select industries to determine if female occupational fatal and nonfatal injury rates were following trends comparable to male rates. Over the 25-year study period, male injury and fatality rates were consistently higher than females. Occupational fatality rates for males were more than nine times higher than female rates, and for nonfatal occupational injuries, male rates were 1.4 times higher than female rates. These analyses indicate that the differences in nonfatal injury rates by sex may be attenuating, however, the large gap by sex in workplace fatalities has remained unchanged. Occupational safety and health research with a more specific focus on these sex differences is needed to gain a clearer understanding of how sex differences affect hiring, job training, task assignment and completion, and injury risk, to identify areas where prevention efforts could be most successful. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • ISSN:
    0271-3586
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Genre:
    Journal Article
  • Place as Subject:
  • 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:
    194-201
  • Volume:
    68
  • Issue:
    2
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20070416
  • Citation:
    Am J Ind Med 2025 Feb; 68(2):194-201
  • Contact Point Address:
    Kitty J. Hendricks, Division of Safety Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
  • Email:
    kjt1@cdc.gov
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2025
  • Peer Reviewed:
    True
  • Source Full Name:
    American Journal of Industrial Medicine
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:1d1987e4d909e4014a03c8b628e63bfcc6f1325f13d2b2cf2abf8ef484ccae5d8cf2f152296455dc90837474255f3bade43a8b583e0278cf8cf33578f3c56e39
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