Worker Health Chartbook 2004

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1		Figure 1-18 Incidence rates of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses in private industry by State, 2001. Nonfatal occupational injury and illness rates varied by State from 2.3 to 8.7 per 100 full-time workers. (The U.S. rate was 5.7 per 100 full-time workers.) Lower rates were reported for States in the South, southern coastal States, and the Southwest. (Source: BLS [2003d].)
2		Figure 1-19 Incidence rates for lost-workday cases of nonfatal occupational injury and illness in private industry by State, 2001. Rates of lost-workday cases of nonfatal occupational injury and illness varied among the States from 1.9 to 5.0 per 100 full-time workers, with an overall U.S. rate of 2.8. Lower rates were reported for the South, southern coastal States, and the Southwest. (Source: BLS [2003d].)
3		Figure 2-59 Incidence rates for disorders associated with repeated trauma in private industry by State, 2001. Incidence rates for disorders associated with repeated trauma varied by State in 2001, from a low of 2.9 per 10,000 full-time workers in New Mexico to a high of 120.1 in Maine. The U.S. rate was 23.8 per 10,000 full-time workers. Lower rates were reported for States in the West, the Southwest, and the South. (Source: BLS [2002].)
4		Figure 2-198 Incidence rates for dust diseases of the lungs in private industry by State, 2001. Rates for occupational dust diseases of the lungs varied by State in 2001, from a low of 0.1 per 10,000 full-time workers in most States to a high of 3.8 per 10,000 full-time workers in West Virginia. The U.S. rate was 0.1 per 10,000 full-time workers. Lower rates were reported for States in the South, the Southwest, and the West. (Source: BLS [2002].)
5		Figure 2-207 Incidence rates for skin diseases and disorders in private industry by State, 2001. In 2001, rates of occupational skin diseases and disorders varied by State from a low of 1.2 cases per 10,000 full-time workers in New Mexico to a high of 9.8 in Kansas. The U.S. rate was 4.3 cases per 10,000 full-time workers. Lower rates were reported for the West, the Southwest, and the Mid-Atlantic States. (Source: BLS [2002].)

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