OS TB 3/12/97 Table: Repeated Trauma - Highest rates w/1995 numbers - 1995

Industries with the highest nonfatal illness incidence rates of disorders associated with repeated trauma, private 
industry, 1995
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                                                1995
                                               annual          
      Industry 1/                  SIC         average     Incidence  Number of
                                  code 2/     employment    rate 4/     cases
                                              (000's) 3/               (000's)
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 Meat packing plants............   2011          143.5       1,206.2	18.4
 Motor vehicles and car bodies..   3711          358.9         885.0	31.7
 Knit underwear mills...........   2254           22.4         786.3     1.6
 Poultry slaughtering and
   processing...................   2015          235.5         623.5	14.4
 Household laundry equipment....   3633           16.7         592.4      .9
				
 Men's and boys' underwear
   and nightwear................   2322           24.1         469.0     1.0
 Sausages and other
   prepared meats...............   2013           91.5         426.1     3.9
 Household refrigerators
   and freezers.................   3632           29.7         388.2     1.1
 Engine electrical equipment....   3694           70.6         384.6     2.8
 Men's and boys' trousers
   and slacks...................   2325           77.3         383.7     2.7
				
 Motorcycles, bicycles,
   and parts....................    375           20.8         371.5      .8
 Automotive stampings...........   3465          115.3         352.0     4.2
 Public building and
   related furniture............    253           42.7         347.3     1.4
 Men's and boys' work clothing..   2326           40.6         341.8     1.2
 Household appliances, n.e.c....   3639           13.1         329.8      .4
				
 Flat glass.....................    321           15.3         325.5      .5
 Measuring and dispensing pumps.   3586            5.5         316.5      .2
 Motor vehicle parts and                                               
   accessories..................   3714          511.9         304.6    16.5
 Potato chips and similar
   snacks.......................   2096           35.4         296.4     1.1
 Men's footwear, except
   athletic.....................   3143           25.4         267.8      .6
				
 Women’s footwear, except
   athletic.....................   3144           16.9         262.3      .4
 Household cooking equipment....   3631           21.4         255.3      .5
 Greeting cards.................    277           27.6         251.8      .6
 Refrigeration and heating
   equipment....................   3585          139.0         245.4     3.4
 Leather tanning and finishing..    311           13.7         244.4      .3
				
        Private industry 5/                   96,866.0          37.8   308.2
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	1  High rate industries were those having the 25 highest incidence rates
for illness cases of disorders associated with repeated trauma 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.

	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  Incidence rates represent the number of illness cases of disorders
associated with repeated trauma per 10,000 full-time workers and were calculated
as:  (N/EH) X 20,000,000, where

           N = number of illness cases of disorders associated with repeated trauma
          EH = total hours worked by all employees during the calendar year
  20,000,000 = base for 10,000 equivalent full-time workers (working 40 hours
               per week, 50 weeks per year).

	5  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