OS TB 3/12/97 Table: Repeated Trauma - Highest number of cases - 1995

Industries with the highest number of nonfatal illness cases of disorders
associated with repeated trauma, private industry, 1995
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                                                1995
                                               annual        Number of cases  
      Industry 1/                  SIC         average           (000's)
                                  code 2/     employment   ____________________       
                                              (000's) 3/     1994       1995  
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 Motor vehicles and equipment...   371           967.6       52.5	49.5
 Meat products..................   201           470.5       40.2	36.7
 Aircraft and parts.............   372           449.0        7.7        6.4
 Men's and boys' furnishings....   232           251.9        7.9        6.2
 Hospitals......................   806         3,742.9        5.5        6.1
				
 Miscellaneous plastics
   products, n.e.c..............   308           709.5        6.6        5.9
 Metal forging and stampings....   346           251.5        5.4        5.2
 Grocery stores.................   541         2,983.2        6.5        5.1
 Telephone communications.......   481           886.6        3.5        4.6
 Electronic components and
   accessories..................   367           581.4        4.8        4.3
				
 Household appliances...........   363           120.4        3.2        4.2
 Knitting mills.................   225           196.7        4.8        4.1
 Refrigeration and service
   machinery....................   358           201.6        3.9        4.0
 Miscellaneous electrical
   equipment and supplies.......   369           156.2        4.3        3.9
 Nonstore retailers.............   596           329.4        2.5        2.8
				
 Department stores..............   531         2,327.4        2.5        2.7
 Computer and data processing
   services.....................   737         1,084.0        1.6        2.7
 Medical instruments and
   supplies.....................   384           263.8        3.7        2.7
 Ship and boat building and
   repairing....................   373           158.3        2.6        2.6
 Measuring and controlling
   devices......................   382           286.2        2.5        2.6
				
 Household furniture............   251           280.4        2.0        2.5
 Miscellaneous fabricated
   textile products.............   239           221.7        3.2        2.5
 Commercial printing............   275           560.4        2.2        2.5
 Cutlery, handtools, and
   hardware.....................   342           128.0        2.3        2.4
 Offices and clinics of
   medical doctors..............   801         1,609.9        1.6        2.4
				
 Iron and steel foundries.......   332           130.2        2.3        2.4
 Commercial banks...............   602         1,461.1        2.4        2.3
 Computer and office equipment..   357           350.0        2.5        2.3
 Newspapers.....................   271           445.7        2.3        2.3
 Fire, marine, and casualty
   insurance....................   633           530.8        3.0        2.3
				
 Miscellaneous food and
   kindred products.............   209           180.4        2.7        2.1
 Women's and misses' outerwear..   233           276.0        2.4        2.1
 Electrical industrial
   apparatus....................   362           157.4        2.3        2.1
 Miscellaneous fabricated
   metal products...............   349           252.0        1.7        2.1
 Bakery products................   205           211.4        2.0        2.1
 Air transportation, scheduled..   451           626.3        2.2        2.0
				
        Private Industry 4/.....              96,886.0      332.1      308.2
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        1  Industries with the highest number of illness cases of disorder
associated with repeated trauma were determined by analysis of the number of
cases at the 3-digit SIC code level.  The analysis included those 3-digit
industries which reported at least 2,000 cases of disorders associated with
repeated trauma.

	2  Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1987 Edition.

	3  Employment is expressed as an annual average and is derived primarily
from the BLS-State Current Employment Statistics program.
	
	4  Excludes farms with fewer than 11 employees.

	n.e.c.  =  not elsewhere classified

        SOURCE:  Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
                 March 1997

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