The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has just released its final count of workplace fatalities for 2013 (the latest year calculated) showing California’s death toll that year to be 396 — more than one worker killed every day — with 21 more fatalities than in 2012. The 2013 figure is the highest number of deaths since 2009.
Latino worker deaths in 2013 were 42% higher than the year before — 194 deaths in 2013 compared to 137 in 2012. The death rate jumped to 3.2 per 100,000 Latino workers in 2013 compared to 2.3 per 100,000 in 2012.