OS TB 12/12/2000 Table: S2. Highest rates for lost workday cases - injuries and illnesses - 1999


TABLE S02.  Highest incidence rates(1) of nonfatal occupational
injury and illness cases with lost workdays,(2) private industry,
1999
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                              |        |        |                 
                              |        |  1999  |    Incidence    
                              |        | Annual |       rate      
         Industry(3)          |   SIC  | average|_________________
                              | code(4)|employm-|        |        
                              |        | ent(5) |  1998  |  1999  
                              |        | (000s) |        |        
______________________________|________|________|________|________
                              |        |        |        |        
Meat packing plants...........|  2011  |   147.6|    16.7|    15.6
Ship building and repairing...|  3731  |   103.2|    11.5|    10.7
Leather tanning and finishing.|   311  |    12.3|     7.7|    10.4
Air transportation, scheduled.|   451  | 1,058.7|    11.2|    10.4
Aluminum foundries............|  3365  |    26.5|    11.4|    10.2
                              |        |        |        |        
Motor vehicles and car bodies.|  3711  |   352.1|    10.4|    10.1
Prefabricated wood buildings..|  2452  |    24.4|     7.3|     9.7
Plastics plumbing fixtures....|  3088  |    22.6|  (6)3.8|  (6)9.7
Aluminum die-castings.........|  3363  |    40.1|     8.5|     9.6
Canned and cured fish and     |        |        |        |        
 seafoods.....................|  2091  |     6.6|     7.0|     9.5
                              |        |        |        |        
Vitreous plumbing fixtures....|  3261  |    10.2|    14.3|     9.4
Steel foundries, n.e.c........|  3325  |    27.8|    11.1|     9.3
Bottled and canned soft drinks|  2086  |    98.2|     9.5|     9.1
Wood pallets and skids........|  2448  |    45.8|     8.5|     9.0
Nonferrous forgings...........|  3463  |     9.4|     7.4|     8.9
                              |        |        |        |        
Structural wood members,      |        |        |        |        
 n.e.c........................|  2439  |    46.9|     7.3|     8.8
Steel investment foundries....|  3324  |    16.4|     6.7|     8.8
Metal sanitary ware...........|  3431  |    15.9|  (6)5.9|  (6)8.8
Poultry slaughtering and      |        |        |        |        
 processing...................|  2015  |   254.7|     9.2|     8.6
Tire cord and fabrics.........|  2296  |     6.3|  (6)6.7|  (6)8.6
                              |        |        |        |        
Gray and ductile iron         |        |        |        |        
 foundries....................|  3321  |    78.8|    11.5|     8.6
Metal heat treating...........|  3398  |    19.1|     5.9|     8.5
Mattresses and bedsprings.....|  2515  |    35.5|     7.1|     8.4
Automotive stampings..........|  3465  |   121.1|     9.7|     8.3
Public building and related   |        |        |        |        
 furniture....................|   253  |    52.3|     8.3|     8.2
                              |        |        |        |        
Glass containers..............|  3221  |    24.1|  (6)6.1|  (6)8.1
Mobile homes..................|  2451  |    77.8|    10.8|     8.0
Automatic vending machines....|  3581  |     9.0|     6.9|     7.9
Truck and bus bodies..........|  3713  |    47.7|     8.6|     7.9
Truck trailers................|  3715  |    43.1|     9.6|     7.9
                              |        |        |        |        
Sausages and other prepared   |        |        |        |        
 meats........................|  2013  |   102.6|     8.5|     7.8
Cheese, natural and processed.|  2022  |    41.1|  (6)4.5|  (6)7.7
Nonferrous die-casting, except|        |        |        |        
 aluminum.....................|  3364  |    12.4|     7.1|     7.6
Iron and steel forgings.......|  3462  |    30.9|     7.4|     7.6
Nursing and personal care     |        |        |        |        
 facilities...................|   805  | 1,782.1|     8.1|     7.6
                              |        |        |        |        
      Private industry(7).....|        |107611.8|  (6)3.1|  (6)3.0
______________________________|________|________|________|________

  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 Lost workday cases involve days away from work, days of
restricted work activity, or both.
  3 High rate industries were those having the 25 highest lost
workday cases incidence rates for injuries and illnesses 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.
  4 Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1987 Edition.
  5 Employment is expressed as an annual average and is derived
primarily from the BLS-State Covered Employment and Wages program.
  6 A statistical significance test indicates that the difference
between the 1999 incidence rate and the 1998 rate is statistically
significant at the 95 percent confidence level.
  7 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 2000