BTS | Table 2-7: Transportation-Related Occupational Fatalities (a)

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Table 2-7: Transportation-Related Occupational Fatalities^a

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	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001^h	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
All occupational fatalities	6,217	6,331	6,632	6,275	6,202	6,238	6,055	6,054	5,920	5,915	5,534	5,575	5,764	(R) 5,734	5,703
Transportation-related fatalities, total^b	2,484	2,499	2,762	2,587	2,601	2,605	2,645	2,618	2,573	2,524	2,385	2,364	2,490	(R) 2,493	2,413
Highway^c	1,158	1,242	1,343	1,346	1,346	1,393	1,442	1,496	1,365	1,409	1,373	1,353	1,398	(R) 1,437	1,329
Nonhighway^d	436	392	409	387	374	377	388	352	399	326	323	347	338	340	342
Aircraft	353	282	426	283	324	261	224	228	280	247	194	211	231	(R) 149	215
Pedestrian struck by vehicle^e	346	365	391	388	353	367	413	377	370	383	356	337	378	(R) 391	372
Water vehicle^f	109	119	94	87	119	109	112	102	84	90	71	69	91	(R) 88	89
Railway^g	66	86	81	82	74	93	60	56	71	62	64	43	50	(R) 83	65
As a percent of all occupational fatalities
Transportation-related fatalities, total^b	40	39	42	41	42	42	44	43	43	43	43	42	43	43	42
Highway	19	20	20	21	22	22	24	25	23	24	25	24	24	(R) 25	23
Nonhighway	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	6	6	6	6	6	6
Aircraft	6	4	6	5	5	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	(R) 3	4
Pedestrian struck by vehicle	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	6	6	6	6	6	7	(R) 7	7
Water vehicle	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	2	1	1	2	(R) 2	2
Railway	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	(R) 1	1

KEY: R = revised.

^a Based on the 1992 Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Injury and Illness Classification Manual.

^bNumbers may not add to totals because transportation categories may include subcategories not shown separately.

^cIncludes collisions between vehicles/mobile equipment moving in the same or opposite directions, such as in an intersection; between moving and standing vehicles/mobile equipment at the side of a roadway; or a vehicle striking a stationary object. Also includes noncollisions, e.g., jack-knifed or overturned vehicle/mobile equipment-no collision; ran off highway-no collision; struck by shifting load; sudden start or stop; not elsewhere classified.

^dRefers to farms and industrial premises. Includes collisions between vehicles/mobile equipment; vehicles/mobile equipment striking a stationary object. Also includes noncollisions such as a fall from a moving vehicle/mobile equipment, fall from and struck by vehicle/mobile equipment, overturned vehicle/mobile equipment, and loss of control of vehicle/mobile equipment.

^eIncludes worker struck by vehicle/mobile equipment in roadway, on side of road, in a parking lot, or nonroad area.

^fIncludes collisions, explosions, fires, fall from or on ship/boat, and sinking/capsized water vehicles involved in transportation. Does not include fishing boats.

^gIncludes collisions between railway vehicles, railway vehicle and other vehicle, railway vehicle and other object, and derailment.

^hData do not include fatalities from the terrorist attacks of September 11 which totaled 2,886.

NOTES

Percentages may not add to totals due to rounding.

The above categories do not define the types of jobs people had, nor the industries in which they worked. The categories define the ways in which they died. For example, a representative traveling for business reasons who is killed in a rail accident would be listed under rail.

SOURCE

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), Internet site http://www.bls.gov as of Nov. 1, 2007.

Table 2-7: Transportation-Related Occupational Fatalitiesa

Table 2-7: Transportation-Related Occupational Fatalities^a