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Category Archives: Statistics
With April being designated as Recognizing Distracted Driving Awareness Month, we wanted to focus on tools and tactics available to help reduce distracted driving among your drivers. Driver distractions are a factor in auto crashes and were considered to be … Continue reading
Preliminary results from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries have been released. Findings show that the number of fatal work injuries in 2011 was slightly lower than final results from 2010. Last year, 4,609 workers … Continue reading
Late last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the preliminary National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries for 2010 showing little change from 2009 final results. A preliminary total of 4,547 fatal work injuries were recorded in the United States … Continue reading
In fiscal 2009, Federal OSHA conducted 797 fatality inspections, down from 936 the previous year. The year before that, the agency performed 1,043 fatality inspections; the year before that, 1,081; and the year before that, 1,114. The percentage of violations … Continue reading
January 26th, 2010 Yesterday the U.S. Department of Labor made six datasets publicly available. The datasets released include information from the OSHA, which will make it possible for anyone in the public to track injury statistics in the American workplace. … Continue reading
OSHA announced today that over the last 16 months, compliance officers from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have made 104 visits to Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama companies where employees may be exposed to … Continue reading
OSHA Inspection Stats FY2004 FY2005 FY2006 FY2007 FY 2008 % Change 2004-2008 Total Inspections 39,167 38,714 38,579 39,324 38,591 -1.5% Total Programmed Inspections 21,576 21,404 21,506 23,035 23,023 6.7% Total Unprogrammed Inspections 17,590 17,310 17,073 16,288 15,565 -11.5% … Continue reading
The Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation report for 2007 is out and has recorded 112 occupational fatalities in the state of Kentucky.The following are significant findings of this annual report: Kentucky’s occupational fatality rate is 57% above the national … Continue reading
The 2007 Kentucky occupational fatality statistics are out and Kentucky’s fatality rate is 57% above the national rate (5.8 Kentucky worker deaths/100,000 workers compared to 3.7 US worker deaths/100,000 workers). Farming, Fishing, Forestry occupations had an alarming high fataility rate … Continue reading
In 2004, work-related injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers averaged 7.4 in the truck transportation and warehousing industry, the most current information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.In comparison, for the entire private sector, the rate of injuries … Continue reading
