OS TB 12/18/2001 Table: S5. Highest rates for lost workday cases - injuries only - 2000

TABLE S05.  Highest incidence rates(1) of nonfatal occupational
injury 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) |        |        
______________________________|________|________|________|________
                              |        |        |        |        
Ship building and repairing...|  3731  |    97.1|     9.5|    10.4
Air transportation, scheduled.|   451  | 1,101.3|    10.1|    10.0
Truck trailers................|  3715  |    42.3|     7.5|     9.9
Plastics pipe.................|  3084  |    21.7|     6.6|     9.6
Aluminum foundries............|  3365  |    26.2|     9.5|     9.5
                              |        |        |        |        
Travel trailers and campers...|  3792  |    25.2|  (6)6.7|  (6)9.3
Transportation equipment,     |        |        |        |        
 n.e.c........................|  3799  |    32.8|  (6)6.4|  (6)9.3
Bottled and canned soft drinks|  2086  |    97.9|     8.9|     9.2
Mobile homes..................|  2451  |    65.4|     7.8|     9.1
Meat packing plants...........|  2011  |   148.1|     9.4|     9.0
                              |        |        |        |        
Gray and ductile iron         |        |        |        |        
 foundries....................|  3321  |    77.6|     7.8|     8.7
Fluid milk....................|  2026  |    61.2|     7.2|     8.3
Concrete products, n.e.c......|  3272  |    85.2|     7.4|     7.9
Storage batteries.............|  3691  |    24.3|     4.6|     7.8
Nursing and personal care     |        |        |        |        
 facilities...................|   805  | 1,799.9|     7.5|     7.8
                              |        |        |        |        
Structural wood members,      |        |        |        |        
 n.e.c........................|  2439  |    47.4|     8.6|     7.7
Prefabricated wood buildings..|  2452  |    24.9|     9.7|     7.6
Public building and related   |        |        |        |        
 furniture....................|   253  |    53.7|     6.7|     7.6
Steel wire and related        |        |        |        |        
 products.....................|  3315  |    17.7|     4.1|     7.6
Fabricated structural metal...|  3441  |    90.7|     6.7|     7.6
                              |        |        |        |        
Leather tanning and finishing.|   311  |    10.9|     8.7|     7.5
Mattresses and bedsprings.....|  2515  |    36.7|     7.8|     7.3
Motor vehicles and car bodies.|  3711  |   353.5|     7.1|     7.3
Beer, wine, and distilled     |        |        |        |        
 beverages....................|   518  |   164.1|     5.7|     7.3
Mechanical rubber goods.......|  3061  |    57.7|  (6)5.5|  (6)7.2
                              |        |        |        |        
Secondary nonferrous metals...|   334  |    16.2|     7.0|     7.2
Truck and bus bodies..........|  3713  |    49.0|     7.7|     7.2
Tires and inner tubes.........|   301  |    79.4|  (6)5.8|  (6)7.1
Vitreous plumbing fixtures....|  3261  |     9.9|     8.9|     7.1
Aluminum extruded products....|  3354  |    35.9|     5.5|     7.1
                              |        |        |        |        
Canned and cured fish and     |        |        |        |        
 seafoods.....................|  2091  |     6.5|     7.9|     7.0
                              |        |        |        |        
      Private industry(7).....|        |110064.9|     2.8|     2.8
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  1 The incidence rates represent the number of injuries per 100
full-time workers and were calculated as:  (N/EH) x 200,000, where
                 
     
     N      =  number of injuries                    
     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 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