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Reactions to BLS report on workplace fatalities

OSHA, NSC, ASSP, COSH release statements

January 5, 2023

Many organizations commented on the recent Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report detailing increasing workplace fatalities. Here’s what some of them had to say.

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Workplace fatalities increased nearly 9% in 2021

Latest BLS report reveals highest annual rate since 2016

January 5, 2023

There were 5,190 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States in 2021, an 8.9 percent increase from 4,764 in 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Dec. 16, 2022. The stats reveal it was the highest annual rate since 2016. One worker died every 101 minutes from a work-related injury in 2021.

BLS: Workplace fatalities at highest level in 12 years

December 22, 2020

A total of 5,333 workers died as a result of on-the-job injuries in 2019 – a 1.6% increase from 2018 and the highest number of fatalities since 5,657 were recorded in 2007, according to Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data released Dec. 16 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

No decline in 2018 workplace injury rate

Dave Johnson

November 8, 2019

For the first time since 2012, the national injury rate for U.S. workplaces did not decline in 2018, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. There were 2.8 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses reported by private industry employers in 2018, unchanged from 2017. In both years the total recordable injury case rate (TRC) per 100 full-time workers was 2.8 cases.

Best practices to prevent and avoid accidents at workplace

Joel Cordle

January 24, 2017

Every year, millions of American are hurt in the workplace and most of it requires medical attention. Accidents at workplace can always happen due to a momentary lapse of judgment, a slip in the office floor, or prolonged sitting or standing that leads to other health issues.

Traumatic workplace deaths up last year

December 19, 2016

The number of deaths due to workplace trauma last year was the highest recorded since 2008, according to data released late last week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics culled from its 2015 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI).

Workplace injuries, illnesses continue downward trend in 2015

October 28, 2016

Occupational injury and illness data released yesterday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed a significant drop in the rate of recordable workplace injuries and illnesses in 2015, continuing a pattern of decline that, apart from 2012, has occurred annually for the last 13 years.

Electrical accidents by the numbers

May 23, 2016

Just five occupational groups account for 80 percent of all fatal electrical accidents, according to Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI). They are:

Fatal workplace injury rate stays the same

September 23, 2015

Preliminary results from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries released this week show the rate of fatal work injuries in 2014 was 3.3 per 100,000 full-time workers, the same as the final rate for 2013.

OSHA updates NEP on amputations

August 19, 2015

OSHA has issued an updated National Emphasis Program (NEP) on Amputations. The NEP has been in existence since 2006 and is targeted to industries with high numbers and rates of amputations.