OS TB 12/18/2001 Table: S2. Highest rates for lost workday cases - injuries and illnesses - 2000

TABLE S02.  Highest incidence rates(1) of nonfatal occupational
injury and illness cases with lost workdays,(2) private industry,
2000
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                              |        |        |                 
                              |        |  2000  |    Incidence    
                              |        | Annual |       rate      
         Industry(3)          |   SIC  | average|_________________
                              | code(4)|employm-|        |        
                              |        | ent(5) |  1999  |  2000  
                              |        |  (000) |        |        
______________________________|________|________|________|________
                              |        |        |        |        
Meat packing plants...........|  2011  |   148.1|    15.6|    14.3
Ship building and repairing...|  3731  |    97.1|    10.7|    11.7
Motor vehicles and car bodies.|  3711  |   353.5| (6)10.1| (6)10.5
Truck trailers................|  3715  |    42.3|  (6)7.9| (6)10.4
Air transportation, scheduled.|   451  | 1,101.3|    10.4|    10.4
                              |        |        |        |        
Transportation equipment,     |        |        |        |        
 n.e.c........................|  3799  |    32.8|  (6)7.0| (6)10.2
Travel trailers and campers...|  3792  |    25.2|  (6)7.0| (6)10.0
Aluminum foundries............|  3365  |    26.2|    10.2|     9.9
Plastics pipe.................|  3084  |    21.7|     6.6|     9.6
Public building and related   |        |        |        |        
 furniture....................|   253  |    53.7|     8.2|     9.5
                              |        |        |        |        
Bottled and canned soft drinks|  2086  |    97.9|     9.1|     9.3
Mobile homes..................|  2451  |    65.4|     8.0|     9.3
Gray and ductile iron         |        |        |        |        
 foundries....................|  3321  |    77.6|     8.6|     9.3
Sausages and other prepared   |        |        |        |        
 meats........................|  2013  |   103.8|  (6)7.8|  (6)9.1
Leather tanning and finishing.|   311  |    10.9|    10.4|     9.0
                              |        |        |        |        
Storage batteries.............|  3691  |    24.3|     5.8|     8.8
Poultry slaughtering and      |        |        |        |        
 processing...................|  2015  |   253.2|     8.6|     8.6
Fluid milk....................|  2026  |    61.2|  (6)7.3|  (6)8.6
Concrete products, n.e.c......|  3272  |    85.2|     7.5|     8.1
Canned and cured fish and     |        |        |        |        
 seafoods.....................|  2091  |     6.5|     9.5|     8.0
                              |        |        |        |        
Nursing and personal care     |        |        |        |        
 facilities...................|   805  | 1,799.9|     7.6|     7.9
Structural wood members,      |        |        |        |        
 n.e.c........................|  2439  |    47.4|     8.8|     7.8
Tires and inner tubes.........|   301  |    79.4|  (6)6.2|  (6)7.8
Mechanical rubber goods.......|  3061  |    57.7|     6.4|     7.8
Vitreous plumbing fixtures....|  3261  |     9.9|     9.4|     7.8
                              |        |        |        |        
Fabricated structural metal...|  3441  |    90.7|     7.0|     7.8
Prefabricated wood buildings..|  2452  |    24.9|     9.7|     7.7
Mattresses and bedsprings.....|  2515  |    36.7|     8.4|     7.7
Steel wire and related        |        |        |        |        
 products.....................|  3315  |    17.7|     4.3|     7.7
Aluminum extruded products....|  3354  |    35.9|  (6)5.7|  (6)7.7
                              |        |        |        |        
Truck and bus bodies..........|  3713  |    49.0|     7.9|     7.6
                              |        |        |        |        
      Private industry(7).....|        |110064.9|     3.0|     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 20 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 2000 incidence rate and the 1999 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 2001