Table 3. Industrial Distribution of Fatalities, 2004
Industry (1) Fatalities (2) Fraction of fatalities (3) Fraction of employment (4) Relative risk using FTE measure (4) = (2)/(3) (5) Fraction of Value Added (6) Relative risk using value added measure (6)=(2)/(5)

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting

 669 0.116 0.017 6.73 0.012 9.62

Mining

 152 0.026 0.005 5.48 0.015 1.8

Utilities

 51 0.009 0.007 1.35 0.02 0.44

Construction

 1,234 0.214 0.077 2.8 0.047 4.57

Manufacturing

 463 0.08 0.129 0.62 0.121 0.66

Wholesale trade

 205 0.036 0.036 0.98 0.059 0.6

Retail trade

 377 0.065 0.111 0.59 0.067 0.97

Transportation and warehousing

 840 0.146 0.036 4.01 0.028 5.14

Information

 55 0.01 0.024 0.39 0.046 0.21

Financial activities

 116 0.02 0.072 0.28 0.206 0.1

Professional and business services

 452 0.078 0.101 0.78 0.115 0.68

Educational and health services

 157 0.027 0.126 0.22 0.077 0.35

Leisure and hospitality

 247 0.043 0.073 0.59 0.036 1.19

Other services, except government

 207 0.036 0.047 0.77 0.024 1.52

Government

 535 0.093 0.139 0.67 0.126 0.73

Total with industry specified

 5,760 1 1 1 1 1

NOTE: Fatality counts are from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI). Employment figures are from the Current Population Survey (CPS). It is the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) workers, defined as aggregate annual hours worked by workers in the industry divided by 2,000. Value added is from the national income and product accounts of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).