In 1995, there were 6,275 occupational injury deaths in the United States. By 2023, this number had decreased to 5,283 deaths. Occupational injury deaths reached a peak in 1994, with 6,632 deaths. The lowest number of occupational injury deaths recorded was in 2009, with 4,551 deaths.

In the United States, there were far more occupational injury deaths among men than women. In 2023, there were 4,832 male occupational injury deaths in the United States, compared to 447 deaths among women.

In 2023, the highest occupational injury death rate in the United States was to be found with logging workers, with a rate of 98.9 deaths per 100,000 workers. Overall, the occupational injury death rate in the U.S. stood at 3.5 deaths per 100,000 workers.

The graph illustrates the annual fatalities among construction workers in the United States from 2018 to 2023. The x-axis displays the years, labeled with abbreviated two-digit numbers from '18 to '23, while the y-axis represents the total number of deaths recorded each year. Over this five-year span, the fatalities range from a low of 951 in 2021 to a high of 1,066 in 2019. The data shows fluctuations in annual deaths, with a decrease in fatalities in 2020 and 2021 followed by an increase in 2022. The graph provides a visual representation of the trends in construction worker fatalities during this period.

In 2021, there were ** work-related deaths less in the construction industry of the United States than in the previous year. The number of fatal injuries in construction increased significantly during the last decade and peaked in 2020. While *** people died in this industry in 2011, by 2020 that number increased to *****.

This report analyzes the annual number of fatal occupational injuries in the United States. Common causes of occupational fatalities include falls, machine-related incidents, motor vehicle accidents, electrocution, falling objects, homicides and suicides. Data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) produces comprehensive, accurate, and timely counts of fatal work injuries. CFOI is a Federal-State cooperative program that has been implemented in all 50 States and the District of Columbia since 1992. To compile counts that are as complete as possible, the census uses multiple sources to identify, verify, and profile fatal worker injuries. Information about each workplace fatal injury—occupation and other worker characteristics, equipment involved, and circumstances of the event—is obtained by cross-referencing the source records, such as death certificates, workers' compensation reports, and Federal and State agency administrative reports. To ensure that fatal injuries are work-related, cases are substantiated with two or more independent source documents, or a source document and a follow-up questionnaire. Data compiled by the CFOI program are issued annually for the preceding calendar year. More information and details about the data provided can be found at https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshfat1.htm

In 2021, there were 1,140 occupational injury deaths among full-time equivalent workers between the ages of 55 and 64 years old in the United States - the most out of any age group. In that same year, there were seven occupational injury deaths among workers under the age of 16.

It is widely acknowledged that there are costs involved with fatal injury to workers. These costs cross numerous boundaries, and generally address the overall costs to victims and the affected groups, and to society as a whole. This represents a cause for concern to employers, worker groups, policy makers, medical personnel, economists and others interested in workplace safety and health. This broad-reaching burden can include social costs, organizational costs, familial and interpersonal group costs, as well as personal costs such as suffering and loss of companionship. The data in the accompanying tables focus on monetary costs of fatal occupational injury which largely consist of foregone wages, but also include the direct costs of medical care and the indirect costs of household production and certain ancillary measures.

These data represent a continuation of prior research by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that attempted to delimit the economic consequences of workplace injury for earlier years. Interested parties should be aware that these data serve as a supplemental update to prior NIOSH publications which described the magnitude and circumstances of occupational injury deaths for earlier years 1,2.

The current data build on this research, and the findings are compelling. Over the period studied, 2003-2010, the costs from these 42,380 premature deaths exceeded $44 billion, an amount greater than the reportable gross domestic product for some States. These findings inform the national will to reduce this severe toll on our nation’s workers, institutions, communities, and the nation itself. Researchers and concerned parties within the occupational and public health professions, academia, organizations focusing on workplace safety, labor unions and the business community have all proven to be willing and avid users of this data, and have used this research to continue their efforts, in concert with continuing NIOSH research efforts, to reduce the great toll that injury imposes on our workers, workplaces, and Nation.

In 2023, 1,495 people in the transportation and material moving sector died due to a fatal injury at work in the United States. The total number of fatal work injuries in 2023 amounted to 5,283.

To estimate county of residence of Filipinx healthcare workers who died of COVID-19, we retrieved data from the Kanlungan website during the month of December 2020.22 In deciding who to include on the website, the AF3IRM team that established the Kanlungan website set two standards in data collection. First, the team found at least one source explicitly stating that the fallen healthcare worker was of Philippine ancestry; this was mostly media articles or obituaries sharing the life stories of the deceased. In a few cases, the confirmation came directly from the deceased healthcare worker's family member who submitted a tribute. Second, the team required a minimum of two sources to identify and announce fallen healthcare workers. We retrieved 86 US tributes from Kanlungan, but only 81 of them had information on county of residence. In total, 45 US counties with at least one reported tribute to a Filipinx healthcare worker who died of COVID-19 were identified for analysis and will hereafter be referred to as “Kanlungan counties.” Mortality data by county, race, and ethnicity came from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).24 Updated weekly, this dataset is based on vital statistics data for use in conducting public health surveillance in near real time to provide provisional mortality estimates based on data received and processed by a specified cutoff date, before data are finalized and publicly released.25 We used the data released on December 30, 2020, which included provisional COVID-19 death counts from February 1, 2020 to December 26, 2020—during the height of the pandemic and prior to COVID-19 vaccines being available—for counties with at least 100 total COVID-19 deaths. During this time period, 501 counties (15.9% of the total 3,142 counties in all 50 states and Washington DC)26 met this criterion. Data on COVID-19 deaths were available for six major racial/ethnic groups: Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Black, Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native, Non-Hispanic Asian (hereafter referred to as Asian American), and Hispanic. People with more than one race, and those with unknown race were included in the “Other” category. NCHS suppressed county-level data by race and ethnicity if death counts are less than 10. In total, 133 US counties reported COVID-19 mortality data for Asian Americans. These data were used to calculate the percentage of all COVID-19 decedents in the county who were Asian American. We used data from the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) five-year estimates, downloaded from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) to create county-level population demographic variables.27 IPUMS is publicly available, and the database integrates samples using ACS data from 2000 to the present using a high degree of precision.27 We applied survey weights to calculate the following variables at the county-level: median age among Asian Americans, average income to poverty ratio among Asian Americans, the percentage of the county population that is Filipinx, and the percentage of healthcare workers in the county who are Filipinx. Healthcare workers encompassed all healthcare practitioners, technical occupations, and healthcare service occupations, including nurse practitioners, physicians, surgeons, dentists, physical therapists, home health aides, personal care aides, and other medical technicians and healthcare support workers. County-level data were available for 107 out of the 133 counties (80.5%) that had NCHS data on the distribution of COVID-19 deaths among Asian Americans, and 96 counties (72.2%) with Asian American healthcare workforce data. The ACS 2018 five-year estimates were also the source of county-level percentage of the Asian American population (alone or in combination) who are Filipinx.8 In addition, the ACS provided county-level population counts26 to calculate population density (people per 1,000 people per square mile), estimated by dividing the total population by the county area, then dividing by 1,000 people. The county area was calculated in ArcGIS 10.7.1 using the county boundary shapefile and projected to Albers equal area conic (for counties in the US contiguous states), Hawai’i Albers Equal Area Conic (for Hawai’i counties), and Alaska Albers Equal Area Conic (for Alaska counties).20

In 2021, about *** occupational injury deaths per 100,000 employed full-time equivalent workers occurred in the United States. This figure has remained relatively steady in recent years, and is a decrease from 2006, when the rate of occupational injury deaths stood at *** per 100,000 employed FTE workers.

La CNESST listens to your data needs! Answer our questionnaire.## Do you use or have specific needs in connection with [CNESST] data (https://www.cnesst.gouv.qc.ca/fr)? Take a few minutes to answer the following questionnaire: Consultation on your CNESST data needs To communicate with us about: - the questionnaire, write to us about: - the questionnaire, write to us at donnees.ouvertes@cnesst.gouv.qc.ca. - of a technical problem, write to us at consultation@cnesst.gouv.qc.ca or call us on 1 donnees.ouvertes@cnesst.gouv.qc.ca 866 216-7918, specifying the title of the consultation. Thanks for your participation! # # The dataset shows death claims accepted by the CNESST from January 1 to December 31. The CNESST administers the occupational health and safety regime. The Law on Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases (LATMP) aims to compensate for occupational injuries and the consequences they cause for beneficiaries. The death claims presented in the data set meet the following criteria: * They are the consequence of a work accident or an occupational disease within the meaning of the LATMP. * These claims represent people who were covered by the occupational health and safety insurance plan administered by the CNESST. * The date of registration of the acceptance of the death claim is between January 1 and December 31 of the reference year. Note that the death may have occurred during a year prior to the reference year.

🇨🇦 캐나다 English # #La CNESST listens to your data needs! Answer our questionnaire.## Do you use or have specific needs in connection with [CNESST] data (https://www.cnesst.gouv.qc.ca/fr)? Take a few minutes to answer the following questionnaire: Consultation on your CNESST data needs To communicate with us about: - the questionnaire, write to us about: - the questionnaire, write to us at donnees.ouvertes@cnesst.gouv.qc.ca. - of a technical problem, write to us at consultation@cnesst.gouv.qc.ca or call us on 1 donnees.ouvertes@cnesst.gouv.qc.ca 866 216-7918, specifying the title of the consultation. Thanks for your participation! # # The dataset shows death claims accepted by the CNESST from January 1 to December 31. The CNESST administers the occupational health and safety regime. The Law on Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases (LATMP) aims to compensate for occupational injuries and the consequences they cause for beneficiaries. The death claims presented in the data set meet the following criteria: * They are the consequence of a work accident or an occupational disease within the meaning of the LATMP. * These claims represent people who were covered by the occupational health and safety insurance plan administered by the CNESST. * The date of registration of the acceptance of the death claim is between January 1 and December 31 of the reference year. Note that the death may have occurred during a year prior to the reference year.

In 2023, 757 workers in the United States aged 65 years and older died due to an occupational injury. The age group with the highest number of occupational injury deaths were those between the ages of 55 and 64 years old, with 1,089 deaths.

#La CNESST listens to your data needs! Answer our questionnaire.## Do you use or have specific needs in connection with [CNESST] data (https://www.cnesst.gouv.qc.ca/fr)? Take a few minutes to answer the following questionnaire: Consultation on your CNESST data needs To communicate with us about: - the questionnaire, write to us about: - the questionnaire, write to us at donnees.ouvertes@cnesst.gouv.qc.ca. - of a technical problem, write to us at consultation@cnesst.gouv.qc.ca or call us on 1 donnees.ouvertes@cnesst.gouv.qc.ca 866 216-7918, specifying the title of the consultation. Thanks for your participation! # # The dataset shows claims for occupational injuries registered in one calendar year and admitted no later than March 1 of the following year. Occupational injuries are recorded in CNESST systems following the receipt of claims. These claims represent workers who were covered by the occupational health and safety insurance plan for which the CNESST is responsible. The Law on Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases (LATMP) aims to compensate for occupational injuries and the consequences they cause for beneficiaries. Modification of the Occupational injuries dataset in August 2022 These presence indicators for the types of injuries have been added: - Occupational deafness injuries - Machine injuries - Musculoskeletal disorders - Musculoskeletal disorders - Psychological injuries - Psychological injuries - COVID-19 injuries

United States Employment: NF: PW: OS: Death Care Services data was reported at 119.000 Person th in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 117.100 Person th for Apr 2018. United States Employment: NF: PW: OS: Death Care Services data is updated monthly, averaging 104.500 Person th from Jan 1990 (Median) to May 2018, with 341 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 119.000 Person th in May 2018 and a record low of 87.600 Person th in Jan 1993. United States Employment: NF: PW: OS: Death Care Services data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.G030: Current Employment Statistics Survey: Employment: Production Worker: Non Farm.

Workers' compensation insurance agencies have endured the harsh end of the price cycle through the past five years but have managed to reverse early challenges. Initially, insurers entered a phase where they lowered premiums to gain market share, resulting in declining revenue as competition intensified. Some agencies faced financial difficulties, leading to closures or buyouts by more successful firms, which increased market concentration. Premiums later rose again as dominant agencies gained more influence over prices, bringing better returns per employee. At the same time, a massive resurgence in trucking activity boosted the number of workplace deaths, exacerbating more price hikes. Investment income has also fluctuated significantly. Returns dropped when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates during the pandemic but rebounded as interest rates surged to 22-year highs. Overall, revenue has declined at a CAGR of 1.6% during the current period, reaching $56.7 billion in 2024. This includes a 1.1% rise in revenue in 2024. Workplace safety enhancements are boosting workers' compensation insurers' profit. Many industries are implementing advanced safety measures such as automation and ergonomic improvements, reducing the number of workplace injuries. Insurers offer favorable premium rates to businesses prioritizing safety, encouraging clients to invest in accident mitigation. Safer workplaces have driven workers' compensation insurers' combined ratio to historic lows, representing solid profit. Consolidation will continue over the next five years, supporting robust pricing control for dominant insurance providers. Insurers will incentivize accident mitigation efforts, which may slow revenue growth amid increased competition but sustain profit through reduced claims. Ongoing mergers and acquisitions will improve efficiency and market control for larger insurers. The Federal Reserve's high interest rates will sustain strong investment returns through the early part of the next period, though prolonged high interest rates may discourage companies from expanding workforces and mitigate growth for workers' compensation insurers. Overall, revenue is set to swell at a CAGR of 0.8% during the outlook period, reaching $59.2 billion in 2029.

The aim of the Million Person Study of Low-Dose Health Effects (MPS) is to examine the level of radiation risk for chronic exposures received gradually over time and not acutely as was the case for the Japanese atomic bomb survivors. Nuclear power plant (NPP) workers comprise nearly 15 percent of the MPS. Leukemia, selected cancers, Parkinson’s disease, ischemic heart disease (IHD) and other causes of death are evaluated. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Radiation Exposure Information and Reporting System (REIRS) and the Landauer, Inc. dosimetry databases identified 135,193 NPP workers first monitored 1957–1984. Annual personal dose equivalents [Hp(10)] were available for each worker. Radiation records from all places of employment were sought. Vital status was determined through 2011. Mean absorbed doses to red bone marrow (RBM), esophagus, lung, colon, brain and heart were estimated by adjusting the recorded Hp(10) for each worker by scaling factors, accounting for exposure geometry and energy of the incident gamma radiation. Standardized mortality ratios (SMR) were calculated. Radiation risks were estimated using Cox proportional hazards models. Nearly 50% of workers were employed for more than 20 years. The mean duration of follow-up was 30.2 y. Overall, 29,124 total deaths occurred, 296 from leukemia other than chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), 3382 from lung cancer, 140 from Parkinson’s disease and 5410 from IHD. The mean dose to RBM was 37.9 mGy (maximum 1.0 Gy; percent >100 mGy was 9.2%), 43.2 mGy to lung, 43.7 mGy to colon, 33.2 mGy to brain, and 43.9 mGy to heart. The SMRs (95% CI) were 1.06 (0.94; 1.19) for leukemia other than CLL, 1.10 (1.07; 1.14) for lung cancer, 0.90 (0.76; 1.06) for Parkinson’s disease, and 0.80 (0.78; 0.82) for IHD. The excess relative risk (ERR) per 100 mGy for leukemia other than CLL was 0.15 (90% CI −0.001; 0.31). For all solid cancers the ERR per 100 mGy (95% CI) was 0.01 (–0.03; 0.05), for lung cancer −0.04 (–0.11; 0.02), for Parkinson’s disease 0.24 (–0.02; 0.50), and for IHD −0.01 (–0.06; 0.04). Prolonged exposure to radiation increased the risk of leukemia other than CLL among NPP workers. There was little evidence for a radiation association for all solid cancers, lung cancer or ischemic heart disease. Increased precision will be forthcoming as the different cohorts within the MPS are combined, such as industrial radiographers and medical radiation workers who were assembled and evaluated in like manner.