From 1973 to 1997, the rate for total recordable cases of injuries and illnesses in private industry declined from 11.0 to 7.1 cases per 100 full-time workers, according to U.S. Department of Labor surveys included in a new NIOSH publication, “Worker Health Chartbook, 2000.”
The chartbook provides a one-stop resource for current statistics on numbers and types of occupational injuries, illnesses, and deaths by year, as well as incidence rates and trends over time.