November 24, 2004 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Work-related multiple-fatality incidents, 1995-99
Nearly three-fifths of work-related multiple-fatality incidents from 1995 to 1999 involved transportation.
![Work-related multiple-fatality incidents by event or exposure, 1995-99 (percent)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120924215911im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2004/nov/wk4/art02.gif)
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Most of the transportation-related incidents leading to more than one
fatal injury were head-on highway collisions or incidents involving air and water vessels.
Assaults and violent acts accounted for about one-fifth of multiple-fatality incidents. The category includes 173
multiple homicides claiming 535 workers’ lives, plus 34 murder-suicides claiming 40 workers’ lives
in addition to the assailants who committed suicide.
Fires and explosions and exposure to harmful substances or environments each accounted for less than one-tenth of multiple-fatality incidents. Falls accounted for just two percent of multiple-fatality incidents.
These data are from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), part of the
Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities program. To learn more, see
"Work-related multiple-fatality
incidents," by Dino Drudi and Mark Zak, in the October 2004 issue of the
Monthly Labor Review.
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