December 17, 1999 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Rate of on-the-job injuries and illnesses continues to decline
Last year, the incidence rate for injuries and
illnesses in private industry workplaces was 6.7 cases per 100 full-time
workers, down from 7.1 in 1997. The decline marked the sixth year in a row
that the incidence rate fell.
![Incidence rate for workplace injuries and illnesses, private industry, 1990-98](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925094145im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/1999/Dec/wk2/art05.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
The incidence rate was 8.9 cases per 100 full-time workers in 1992, so
the rate has dropped by 25 percent in six years. The rate for 1998 was the
lowest since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began reporting this
information in the early 1970s.
Totally there were 5.9 million nonfatal occupational injuries and
illnesses. Most of these cases were injuries—there were 5.5 million
injuries and 392,000 illnesses in 1998.
The BLS Safety and Health Statistics Program
produced these data. Find more information on occupational injuries and
illnesses in 1998 in Workplace
Injuries and Illnesses in 1998 news release USDL 99-358.
Of interest
Spotlight on Statistics: National Hispanic Heritage Month
In this Spotlight, we take a look at the Hispanic labor force—including labor force participation, employment and unemployment, educational attainment, geographic location, country of birth, earnings, consumer expenditures, time use, workplace injuries, and employment projections.
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