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National census of fatal occupational injuries in 2007.

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Preliminary results indicate a total of 5,488 fatal work injuries were recorded in the United States in 2007, a decrease of 6% from the total of 5,840 fatal work injuries finally reported for 2006. Final results for 2007 will be released in April 2009. Based on these preliminary counts, the rate of fatal injury for U.S. workers in 2007 was 3.7 fatal work injuries per 100,000 workers.

Fatal Industry Death Statistics 2007
Category	Total	Hwy	Fall	Hit	Murder
total	5,465	633	327	347	276
Crop production	249	11	-	5	16
Animal production	162	12	-	7	10
Forestry, logging	92	12	-	4	66
Mining, except oil and gas	53	11	-	9	13
Support mining	112	36	-	5	18
building construction	244	9	3	44	10
Heavy construction	216	19	-	14	13
Specialty trade contractors	680	11	1	43	7
Manufacturing	392	15	4	12	15
Food manufacturing	49	29	6	12	-
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	71	10	-	14	18
Wholesalers, durable goods	98	31	4	7	18
Wholesalers, nondurable goods	89	44	4	10	6
Retail trade	336	17	48	9	4
Transportation, warehousing	836	54	7	4	5
Utilities	33	9	-	12	9
Information	77	49	8	14	-
Finance and insurance	45	27	49	7	-
Real estate	71	20	23	18	4
Professional, technical svcs	75	24	9	13	-
Admin and waste svcs	386	20	8	23	11
Educational svcs	35	9	-	-	-
Health, social assistance	114	34	15	9	-
Arts, entertainment, recreation	92	12	10	14	8
Accommodation, food svcs	159	9	64	9	-
Other svcs, except public admin	170	18	24	9	11
Federal government	106	22	-	7	5
State government	107	27	21	8	3
Local government	316	32	19	5	6

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