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
TOTAL occupational fatalities	6,217	6,331	6,632	6,275	6,202	6,238	^R6,055	6,023
Transportation-related fatalities
Highway^b	1,158	1,243	1,343	1,346	1,346	1,393	^R1,442	1491
Nonhighway^c	436	392	409	387	374	377	^R388	353
Aircraft	353	282	426	283	324	261	^R224	227
Worker struck by vehicle^d	346	365	391	388	353	367	413	377
Water vehicle^e	109	120	94	87	119	109	112	102
Railway^f	65	86	81	82	74	93	60	56
Total transportation-related^g	2,484	2,501	2,762	2,587	2,601	2,605	^R2,645	2,613
% of total occupational fatalities
Highway	19	20	20	21	22	22	24	25
Nonhighway	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Aircraft	6	4	6	5	5	4	4	4
Worker struck by vehicle	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	6
Water vehicle	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2
Railway	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Total transportation-related	40	40	42	41	42	42	44	43

KEY: R = revised.

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

^b Includes 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.

^c Refers 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.

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

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

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

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

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, News: National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, Internet site www.bls.gov/oshhome.htm as of July 27, 2001. This document is based on the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table 1.

Table 2-7: Transportation-Related Occupational Fatalitiesa

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