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MISSOURI
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Tammy Cavender (573)
751-7500
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 1, 2005
Missouri’s Workers Experienced Fewer Nonfatal Workplace Injuries and Illnesses in 2003
Jefferson City, MO – According to the Survey of Occupational Injuries
and Illnesses, the most serious nonfatal occupational injury and
illness cases involve lost work time. There were 22,770 nonfatal
occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work in
Missouri private industry in 2003. This was a 15.0 percent
decrease from the 26,802 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses
with days away from work in 2002.
The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses is an annual survey
administered by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics in collaboration with the Missouri Department of Labor and
Industrial Relations’ Research and Analysis Section. Occupational
injury and illness data are collected from approximately 5,400 Missouri
employers each year.
The survey also concluded there were 8,300 nonfatal occupational
injuries and illnesses with days away from work in the goods-producing
sectors. Manufacturing (sector 31-33) was the goods-producing
aggregate sector with the most injuries and illnesses at 4,700.
There were 14,470 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with
days away from work in the service-providing sectors. Trade,
transportation, and utilities (sector 42, sector 44-45, sector 48-49,
sector 22) was the service-providing aggregate sector with the most
injuries and illnesses at 7,220.
Women were the injured or ill worker in 31.9 percent of the nonfatal
occupational injury and illness cases involving days away from
work. Education and health services (sector 61 and sector 62) was
the aggregate sector in which women accounted for the largest
percentage (82.9 percent) of the nonfatal occupational injury and
illness cases.
Workers aged 35 to 44 years accounted for 26.7 percent of the total
number of nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases with days away
from work.
Workers with one to five years of service had the most (35.0 percent)
nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work.
White only workers accounted for 59.3 percent of the nonfatal
occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work.
Transportation and material moving occupations was the major
occupational group with the highest number of nonfatal occupational
injuries and illnesses with days away from work with 4,050.
In 2003, the survey began using the 2002 North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS) for the 2003 reference year. The
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system was used for the survey
prior to 2003. NAICS recognizes hundreds of new businesses in the
United States economy. NAICS classifies
establishments into a detailed industry based on the production
processes and the provided services. The industry estimates from
the 2003 survey are not comparable with prior years due to the
conversion to NAICS.
Four characteristics are used to describe the event that caused an
occupational injury or illness – nature of injury or illness, part of
body affected, source of injury or illness, and event or exposure:
· Sprains/strains was the nature (physical
characteristics) of injury or illness in 43.8 percent of the nonfatal
occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work.
· Trunk was the part of body affected in 34.8
percent of all nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases involving
days away from work.
· Worker motion or position was the source of
injury or illness in 19.9 percent of all nonfatal occupational injuries
and illnesses involving days away from work.
· Contact with objects and equipment was the
event or exposure in 24.5 percent of the nonfatal occupational injury
and illness cases involving days away from work.
New characteristics for 2003 injury and illness data are time of event,
hours on the job before event occurred, and day of week:
· The time of event for most (30.0 percent) of
the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away
from work was 8:01 A.M. to 12:00 noon.
· The hours on the job before event occurred
category with the most (21.7 percent) nonfatal occupational injuries
and illnesses with days away from work was 2 hours to less than 4 hours.
· Tuesday was the day of the week when most
(21.2 percent) of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses
involving days away from work occurred.
For more information regarding this survey, please visit
www.bls.gov/iif.
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