True U.S. worker death toll likely much higher than official figures
Despite significant advancements in workplace health and safety over the past four decades, 150 people are killed on the job or die from job-related illnesses and diseases every day in the U.S, according to the 2014 edition of the AFL-CIO’s annual Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect.
That number comes from combining the 4,628 workers who were killed on the job in 2012 (the latest figures available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), and the estimated 50,000 who died from occupational diseases.