• From 1980 through 1995, at least 93,338 workers in the US died as a result of trauma suffered on the job, an average of about 16 deaths per day.
• NIOSH estimates that about 3.6 million occupational injuries were serious enough to be treated in hospital emergency rooms in 1998.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, in 2005:
• There were 5,702 fatal work-related injuries across all sectors, making the rate at which fatal work injuries occurred in 2005 4.0 per 100,000 workers. Fatal highway incidents are the most frequent type of fatal workplace event, accounting for one in every four fatalities nationally.
• There were 564 workplace homicides and 177 workplace suicides recorded.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program, in 2005:
• There were 4,214,200 recorded cases of nonfatal injuries and illnesses in private industry, with 1,234,700 cases involving days away from work.
• Of the 4.2 million cases of nonfatal injuries and illnesses, 4.0 million (94.2%) were injuries and the remainder illnesses.
• The largest shares of injuries were in the manufacturing sector (20%), the healthcare and social assistance sector (16%), and the retail trade sector (15%).
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