CF TB 08/08/96 Number, %, rate x occupation Table 2. Fatal occupational injuries by selected(1) occupation, with employment, rate, and relative standard error, 1995. The rates are experimental measures using CPS employment. Relative standard Occupation(2) Fatalities Employed(3) Fatalities per error(5) Number Percent (in thousands) 100,000 employed(4)(percent) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 6,210 100.0 126,248 5 .1 Managerial and professional specialty 699 11.3 35,318 2 .5 Executive, administrative, and managerial 467 7.5 17,186 3 .8 Managers, food serving and lodging places 58 .9 1,276 5 2.9 Professional specialty 232 3.7 18,132 1 .7 Technical, sales, and administrative support 815 13.1 37,417 2 .5 Technicians and related support occupations 189 3.0 3,909 5 1.7 Airplane pilots and navigators 111 1.8 114 97 9.8 Sales occupations 492 7.9 15,119 3 .8 Supervisors and proprietors 212 3.4 4,480 5 1.5 Cashiers 116 1.9 2,727 4 2.0 News vendors 21 .3 119 16 9.6 Administrative support jobs, including clerical 134 2.2 18,389 1 .7 Service occupations 533 8.6 16,930 3 .8 Protective service occupations 314 5.1 2,237 14 2.2 Fire fighting and prevention jobs, including supervisors 39 .6 287 13 6.2 Police and detectives, including supervisors 174 2.8 1,051 17 3.2 Guards, including supervisors 101 1.6 899 11 3.5 Farming, forestry, and fishing 864 13.9 3,642 23 1.7 Farm operators and managers 332 5.3 1,446 23 2.7 Other agricultural and related occupations 359 5.8 2,010 17 2.3 Farm workers, including supervisors 262 4.2 836 30 3.6 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm 77 1.2 832 9 3.6 Forestry and logging occupations 116 1.9 129 90 9.2 Timber cutting and logging occupations 98 1.6 97 101 10.6 Fishers, hunters, and trappers 57 .9 58 97 13.8 Fishers 48 .8 45 104 15.6 Precision production, craft, and repair 1,041 16.8 13,524 8 .9 Mechanics and repairers 265 4.3 4,423 6 1.6 Automobile mechanics 47 .8 819 6 3.7 Heavy equipment mechanics 24 .4 155 15 8.4 Construction trades 607 9.8 5,098 12 1.4 Carpenters 96 1.5 1,255 8 2.9 Electricians 117 1.9 736 16 3.9 Electrical power installers and repairers 35 .6 126 28 9.3 Painters, construction and maintenance 45 .7 509 9 4.6 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters 33 .5 502 7 4.7 Roofers 60 1.0 205 29 7.3 Structural metal workers 38 .6 59 64 13.6 Extractive occupations 67 1.1 136 49 9.0 Mining machine operators 28 .5 36 78 17.5 Operators, fabricators, and laborers 2,051 33.0 18,068 11 .7 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors 238 3.8 7,907 3 1.2 Welders and cutters 72 1.2 604 12 4.3 Transportation and material moving occupations 1,148 18.5 5,171 22 1.4 Motor vehicle operators 918 14.8 3,904 24 1.7 Truck drivers 749 12.1 2,861 26 1.9 Drivers--sales workers 33 .5 158 21 8.3 Taxicab drivers and chauffeurs 99 1.6 213 46 7.2 Water transportation occupations 38 .6 65 58 13.0 Sailors and deckhands 30 .5 26 115 20.6 Material moving equipment operators 167 2.7 1,098 15 3.2 Operating engineers 44 .7 246 18 6.7 Grader, dozer, and scraper operators 23 .4 74 31 12.2 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators 33 .5 500 7 4.7 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 665 10.7 4,990 13 1.5 Construction laborers 309 5.0 780 39 3.7 Garbage collectors 29 .5 48 60 15.1 Garage and service station related occupations 28 .5 178 16 7.9 Laborers, except construction 212 3.4 1,337 16 2.9 Military 143 2.3 1,348 11 --(6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Selected occupations had more than 20 reported work injury fatalities in 1995. 2 Based on the 1990 population census occupational classification system developed by the Bureau of the Census. 3 The employment figures, except for military, are annual average estimates of employed civilians 16 years of age and older, from the Current Population Survey (CPS), 1995. The resident military figure, derived from resident and civilian population data from the Bureau of the Census, was added to the CPS employment total. 4 The rate represents the number of fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 employed workers and was calculated as follows: (N/W) x 100,000, where N = the number of fatal work injuries, and W = the number of employed workers, as described in the previous footnote. There were 26 fatally injured workers under the age of 16 years that were not included in the rate calculations to maintain consistency with the CPS employment. 5 The relative standard errors of the CPS employment estimates can be used to approximate confidence ranges for the fatality rates. For example, a confidence range for the roofers rate can be approximated as follows: 29 x .073 x 1.6 = 3, where 29 = the rate, .073 = the relative standard error (7.3 percent), and 1.6 = the factor for a 90 percent confidence level. The confidence range for this rate is 26 to 32 (29 plus or minus 3). 6 A standard error was not available for the military employment figure used in the rate calculation for this category. NOTE: Totals for major categories may include subcategories not shown separately. Figures may not add to totals because of rounding. There were 64 fatalities for which there was insufficient information to determine an occupation classification. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 1995.