FATAL WORK INJURIES IN CALIFORNIA: STATISTICS
Depending on where you work, the risk of getting a fatal injury can vary greatly. This makes sense because if you work in a place with a lot of hazardous materials, you would be more likely to suffer an injury there compared to someone who works in an office building. Here are some fatal occupational injury statistics depending on a person’s occupation:
- Management, professional, and related occupations : 48 work fatalities
- Service occupations: 59 work fatalities
- Sales and office occupations: 28 work fatalities
- Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations: 131 work fatalities
- Production, transportation, and material moving occupations: 126 work fatalities
- Military specific occupations: 15 work fatalities
In California, there were a total of 407 work fatalities in the year of 2007.
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