CF TB TABLE A-6.  Fatal occupational injuries by worker characteristics and event or exposure, 1999


  TABLE A-6.  Fatal occupational injuries by worker characteristics and event or exposure, 1999
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                                          |         |                    Event or exposure(1)                   
                                          |         |                         (percent)                         
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                                          |  Total  |         |         |         |         | Exposure|         
           Worker characteristics         |fataliti-|         |         | Contact |         |    to   |         
                                          |    es   |  Trans- | Assaults|   with  |         |  harmful|  Fires  
                                          | (number)|portation|   and   | objects |  Falls  |   sub-  |   and   
                                          |         |   inci- | violent |   and   |         | stances |  explo- 
                                          |         | dents(2)| acts(3) |equipment|         |    or   |  sions  
                                          |         |         |         |         |         |   envi- |         
                                          |         |         |         |         |         | ronments|         
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                                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
                                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
        Total.............................|  6,023  |   43.4  |   14.8  |   17.1  |   11.9  |    8.8  |    3.6  
                                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
              Employee status             |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
                                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
                                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
  Wage and salary workers(4)..............|  4,884  |   44.5  |   13.3  |   16.4  |   12.6  |    9.0  |    3.8  
  Self-employed(5)........................|  1,139  |   38.5  |   21.5  |   20.2  |    8.9  |    8.0  |    2.6  
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                    Sex                   |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
                                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
                                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
  Men.....................................|  5,582  |   42.9  |   13.4  |   18.1  |   12.3  |    9.3  |    3.7  
  Women...................................|    441  |   50.1  |   33.3  |    4.3  |    7.0  |    2.7  |    1.8  
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                    Age                   |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
                                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
                                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
    under 15 years........................|     15  |   60.0  |    -    |    -    |    -    |    -    |    -    
    15 to 17 years........................|     57  |   45.6  |   21.1  |   22.8  |    -    |    -    |    -    
    18 to 24 years........................|    572  |   43.0  |   14.3  |   18.0  |    8.2  |   13.1  |    3.1  
    25 to 44 years........................|  2,670  |   40.9  |   15.5  |   16.9  |   11.8  |   10.5  |    4.1  
    45 to 64 years........................|  2,140  |   44.5  |   14.6  |   17.1  |   12.9  |    6.7  |    3.5  
    65 to 74 years........................|    397  |   49.6  |   13.6  |   15.9  |   14.1  |    4.5  |    1.5  
    75 years and over.....................|    162  |   53.1  |    8.0  |   18.5  |   11.7  |    3.7  |    4.3  
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                    Race                  |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
                                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
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  White...................................|  4,990  |   45.2  |   12.3  |   17.5  |   12.4  |    8.5  |    3.7  
  Black...................................|    626  |   37.7  |   23.2  |   16.1  |    8.5  |   10.4  |    3.4  
  Other or unknown........................|    407  |   29.5  |   33.2  |   13.5  |   10.6  |   10.1  |    2.9  
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              Hispanic origin             |         |         |         |         |         |         |         
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  Hispanic(6).............................|    725  |   36.1  |   15.6  |   18.9  |   16.3  |   10.1  |    2.9  
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    1 Based on the 1992 BLS Occupational Injury and Illness Classification Manual.
    2 Includes highway, nonhighway, air, water, and rail fatalities.
    3 Includes violence by persons, self-inflicted injury, and attacks by animals.
    4 May include volunteers and other workers receiving compensation.               
    5 Includes paid and unpaid family workers, and may include owners of incorporated businesses, or members of
  partnerships.
    6 Persons identified as Hispanic may be of any race.
    NOTE: Totals for major categories may include subcategories not shown separately.  Percentages may not add
  to totals because of rounding.
    There were 10 fatalities for which there was insufficient information to determine the age of the decedent. 
    Dashes indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria. 
    SOURCE:  U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries