August 18, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Fatal work injuries in 1999
The number of fatal
work injuries that occurred during 1999 was 6,023, nearly the same as the
previous year's total despite an increase in employment.
![Fatal occupational injuries, 1992-99](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925080436im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2000/Aug/wk2/art05.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
Decreases in job-related deaths from
homicides and electrocutions in 1999 were offset by increases from workers
struck by falling objects or caught in running machinery. Homicides fell
from the second-leading cause of fatal work injuries to the third, behind
highway fatalities and falls. Construction reported the largest number of
fatal work injuries for any industry and accounted for one-fifth of the
fatality total.
These data are a product of the BLS Safety
and Health Statistics Program. Additional information is available
from "National Census of Fatal
Occupational Injuries, 1999," news release USDL 00-236.
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