OS TB 12/18/2003 Table: SNR02. Highest rates for DART cases - injuries and illnesses - 2002


TABLE SNR02.  Highest incidence rates(1) of nonfatal
occupational injury and illness cases with days away from
work, restricted work activity, or job transfer, private
industry, 2002
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                              |        |        |        
                              |        |Inciden-|        
         Industry(2)          |   SIC  |   ce   | Number 
                              | code(3)|  rate  |  (000) 
                              |        |        |        
______________________________|________|________|________
                              |        |        |        
Meat packing plants...........|  2011  |    10.3|    16.2
Aluminum die-castings.........|  3363  |     9.7|     3.3
Malleable iron foundries......|  3322  |     9.5|      .2
Ship building and repairing...|  3731  |     9.3|     9.3
Motor vehicles and car bodies.|  3711  |     8.9|    29.1
                              |        |        |        
Air transportation, scheduled.|   451  |     8.8|    69.6
Public building and related   |        |        |        
 furniture....................|   253  |     8.5|     4.2
Mobile homes..................|  2451  |     8.4|     4.2
Leather tanning and finishing.|   311  |     8.4|      .7
Bottled and canned soft drinks|  2086  |     8.0|     8.4
                              |        |        |        
Structural wood members,      |        |        |        
 n.e.c........................|  2439  |     8.0|     3.9
Partitions and fixtures,      |        |        |        
 except wood..................|  2542  |     7.8|     2.5
Automatic vending machines....|  3581  |     7.8|      .4
Sausages and other prepared   |        |        |        
 meats........................|  2013  |     7.7|     8.4
Aluminum foundries............|  3365  |     7.7|     1.7
                              |        |        |        
Primary copper................|  3331  |     7.6|      .2
Nonferrous die-casting, except|        |        |        
 aluminum.....................|  3364  |     7.6|      .8
Nursing and personal care     |        |        |        
 facilities...................|   805  |     7.6|   113.1
Fabricated structural metal...|  3441  |     7.4|     6.3
Gray and ductile iron         |        |        |        
 foundries....................|  3321  |     7.2|     4.9
                              |        |        |        
Steel foundries, n.e.c........|  3325  |     7.2|     1.5
Truck trailers................|  3715  |     7.2|     2.0
Concrete products, n.e.c......|  3272  |     7.1|     6.1
Steel wire and related        |        |        |        
 products.....................|  3315  |     7.1|     1.1
                              |        |        |        
      Private industry(4).....|        |     2.8| 2,494.3
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  1 The incidence rates represent the number of injuries
and illnesses per 100 full-time workers and were
calculated as:  (N/EH) x 200,000, where                  
     
     N      =  number of injuries and illnesses          
     EH     =  total hours worked by all employees during
               the calendar year                         
     200,000=  base for 100 equivalent full-time workers 
               (working 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per
               year)
     
  2 High rate industries were those having the 15 highest
incidence rates of injury and illness cases with days
away from work, restricted work activity, or job
transfer, at the most detailed or lowest SIC level at
which rates are calculated and published.  Generally,
manufacturing industries were calculated at the 4-digit
code level and the remaining industries at the 3-digit
level based on the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual, 1987 Edition.
  3 Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1987
Edition.
  4 Excludes farms with fewer than 11 employees.
  
  NOTE:  The n.e.c. abbreviation means that the category
includes those components not elsewhere classified.
  SOURCE:   Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department
of Labor   December 2003