CF TB TABLE A-6. Fatal occupational injuries by worker characteristics and event or exposure, 2000 TABLE A-6. Fatal occupational injuries by worker characteristics and event or exposure, 2000 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | Event or exposure(1) | | (percent) ___________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | Total | | | | | Exposure| Worker |fataliti-| | | Contact | | to | characteristics | es | Trans- | Assaults| with | | harmful| Fires | (number)|portation| and | objects | Falls | sub- | and | | inci- | violent | and | | stances | explo- | | dents(2)| acts(3) |equipment| | or | sions | | | | | | envi- | | | | | | | ronments| ____________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Total...........| 5,915 | 43.5 | 15.7 | 17.0 | 12.4 | 8.1 | 3.0 | | | | | | | Employee status | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wage and salary | | | | | | | workers(4)...........| 4,731 | 44.9 | 13.8 | 16.6 | 12.9 | 8.4 | 3.0 Self-employed(5)......| 1,184 | 37.6 | 23.2 | 18.6 | 10.5 | 7.1 | 3.0 | | | | | | | Sex | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Men...................| 5,467 | 43.3 | 14.2 | 17.9 | 12.8 | 8.4 | 3.0 Women.................| 448 | 45.1 | 33.7 | 6.0 | 7.4 | 5.1 | 2.5 | | | | | | | Age | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Under 15 years......| 16 | 75.0 | - | - | - | - | - 15 to 17 years......| 57 | 45.6 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 15.8 | - 18 to 24 years......| 571 | 44.0 | 13.1 | 17.5 | 11.9 | 10.0 | 3.2 25 to 44 years......| 2,634 | 41.9 | 16.4 | 17.0 | 11.4 | 10.2 | 2.9 45 to 64 years......| 2,143 | 43.8 | 16.9 | 16.3 | 13.2 | 6.2 | 3.2 65 to 74 years......| 330 | 52.7 | 10.0 | 15.8 | 15.8 | 2.7 | 2.7 75 years and over...| 158 | 40.5 | 12.0 | 27.2 | 15.8 | - | - | | | | | | | Race | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | White.................| 4,240 | 46.7 | 12.8 | 17.0 | 11.8 | 8.1 | 3.2 Black or African | | | | | | | American.............| 574 | 42.2 | 23.0 | 17.4 | 7.7 | 6.6 | 2.8 Hispanic or Latino....| 815 | 33.1 | 15.8 | 18.8 | 19.8 | 9.7 | 2.6 | | | | | | | American Indian or | | | | | | | Alaskan Native.......| 33 | 42.4 | 15.2 | - | 15.2 | 18.2 | - Asian.................| 171 | 21.1 | 56.7 | 7.6 | 9.4 | 3.5 | - Native Hawaiian or | | | | | | | Pacific Islander.....| 14 | - | 35.7 | - | - | - | - Other races or not | | | | | | | reported.............| 68 | 35.3 | 29.4 | 16.2 | 10.3 | 8.8 | - ____________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | 1 Based on the 1992 BLS Occupational Injury and Illness Classification Manual. 2 Includes highway, nonhighway, air, water, rail fatalities, and fatalities resulting from being struck by a vehicle. 3 Includes violence by persons, self-inflicted injury, and attacks by animals. 4 May include volunteers and other workers receiving compensation. 5 Includes paid and unpaid family workers, and may include owners of incorporated businesses, or members of partnerships. NOTE: Totals for major categories may include subcategories not shown separately. Percentages may not add to totals because of rounding. There were 6 fatalities for which there was insufficient information to determine the age of the decedent. Dashes indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, in cooperation with State and Federal agencies, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries