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National census of fatal occupational injuries in 2007.
Results Indicate... Whitman News.
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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