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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Tammy Cavender (573)
751-7500
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 23, 2006
Missouri’s Fatal Workplace Injuries are Reported for 2005
Jefferson City, MO -A total of 5,702 fatal work injuries were recorded in the U.S. in 2005, down about one percent from the revised figure of 5,764 in 2004. Missouri totals increased 10.9 percent from the 165 fatal work injuries reported in 2004 to 183 in 2005, according to the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, conducted by the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Research and Analysis Section in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.
While fatalities were higher nationally in the agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting sector, Missouri had a 6.5 percent decrease in this sector in 2005. Nonetheless, Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting (NAICS 11) was the sector in Missouri in 2005 that had the most occupational fatalities with 43 or 23.5 percent of the total fatal work injuries. Crop production (NAICS 111) accounted for 36 of the 43 fatalities. The agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting sector also had the most occupational fatalities in 2004 in Missouri.
Transportation incidents were the leading event or exposure of fatal work injuries in Missouri in 2004 and again in 2005. Transportation incidents were the event or exposure in 91 or 49.7% of the 183 fatalities in 2005. The agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting sector (NAICS 11) accounted for 21 or 23.1 percent of the 91 transportation incidents in 2005 in Missouri, followed closely by the transportation and warehousing sector (NAICS 48-49) with 18 or 19.8 percent.
Transportation and material moving occupations (SOC 53) was the occupational group with the highest number of fatal work injuries in Missouri in 2005 with 44 or 24 percent of the 183 fatalities. The occupational group with the second highest number of fatalities was management occupations (SOC 11) with 42 or 23 percent.
White, non-Hispanic men were victims in 170 of the 183 fatal work injuries that occurred in Missouri in 2005. White, non-Hispanic men were the victims in 151 of the 165 fatal work injuries in 2004. Workers between the ages of 45 to 54 years of age accounted for 49 of the fatal work injuries in 2005. In 2004, workers between the ages of 45 to 54 years of age also accounted for the most fatal work injuries with 48. One hundred eighteen fatalities occurred to wage and salary workers in 2005 and 98 in 2004.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics, in conjunction with state agencies, developed the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries program in 1992 to produce accurate, comprehensive, descriptive, timely, and accessible counts of fatal workplace injuries that occur during a given year. A fatality is counted in the state where the death occurred regardless of the state of employment to alleviate duplication of reporting in the states.
The fatality census uses diverse sources to identify, verify, and profile fatal work injuries in an effort to compile counts that are as complete as possible. Source documents such as death certificates, workers’ compensation reports, and federal and state agency administrative records are cross-referenced to gather key information about each workplace fatality such as the particular occupation in which the fatality occurred, worker demographic, equipment or machinery involved, and circumstances of the event. Two or more independent source documents are used to verify the work relationship of each fatal work injury.
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