2005 SURVEY OF OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES & IL

SUMMARY ESTIMATES CHARTS PACKAG

October 19, 2006
5.0

2.6

1.5

1.1

2.4

4

4.8

2.5

1.4

1.1

2.3

4.6

2.4

1.4

1.0

2.2

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TRC DART DAFW DJTR ORC 

2003 2004 2005

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Total recordable nonfatal occupational injury and illness incid

by case type, private industry, 2003-2005

Incidence rates for private industry were lower in 2005 with the exception of days away f(DAFW) cases where the incidence rate remained unchanged (1.4 cases per 100 full-time 

TRC=total recordable casesDART=days away from work, job transfer, or restrictionDAFW=days away from workDJTR=days of job transfer or restrictionORC=other recordable casesINJU=injuries only

Case type
2.0

4.3

6.2

5.8 5.7

1.9

4.2

5.9

5.4 5.4

2.0

4.1

5.8

5.2 

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1- 10 11 - 49 50 - 249 250 - 999 1000

2003 2004 2005

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

Employment size class

Nationwide, injury and illness rates in 2005 generally were higher for mid-size establishments employing 50 to 249 workers than for smaller or larger establishalthough this pattern did not hold for all industries. Establishments employing fewer workers had the lowest rates in 2005 compared to other size establishmen

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

All establishments, 2005 = 4.6

Total recordable nonfatal occupational injury and illness incid

by employment size class, private industry, 2003-200
0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 

Other services

Leisure and hospitality

Education and health services

Professional and business services

Financial activities

Information

Trade, transportation, and utilities

Service-providing

Manufacturing

Construction

Natural resources and mining

Goods-producing

Private industry

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Total recordable nonfatal occupational injury and illness incid

by major industries, 2003-2005 

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

Injury and illness incidence rates declined significantly in 2005 for manufacturing; trade, transutilities; and education and health services major industry sectors. No major industry sector significant increase in the rate of total recordable nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses 
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Other services

Leisure and hospitality

Health care and social assistance

Education services

Education and health services

Professional and business services

Financial activities

Information

Utilities

Transportation and warehousing

Retail trade

Wholesale trade

Trade, transportation, and utilities

Service-providing

Manufacturing

Construction

Mining

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Natural resources and mining

Goods-producing

Private Industry

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Total recordable nonfatal occupational injury and illness incid

by selected industries, 2004-2005

Incidence rates for injuries and illnesses ranged from 1.7 cases per 100 full-time wo

financial activities to 7.0 cases per 100 full-time workers in transportation and wareh
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 5

Other services

Leisure and hospitality

Health care and social assistance

Education services

Professional and business services

Financial activities

Information

Utilities

Transportation and warehousing

Retail trade

Wholesale trade

Manufacturing

Construction

Mining

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Cases with days away from wCases with job transfer or res

Numbers in thousands

Number of cases with days away from work, job transfer, or r

by case type and selected industry sector, 2005

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Among industry sectors, only manufacturing had more cases with job transfer or restriccases with days away from work in 2005. This was also the case for manufacturing in 20
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Other services

Leisure and hospitality

Health care and social assistance

Education services

Professional and business services

Financial activities

Information

Utilities

Transportation and warehousing

Retail trade

Wholesale trade

Manufacturing

Construction

Mining

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Cases with days away from wCases with job transfer or rest

Incidence rates for cases with days away from work, job tr

or restriction by case type and selected industry sector, 

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

Although the rate for days away from work, job transfer, or restriction (DART) in transportawarehousing fell by 0.3 cases to 4.6 cases per full-time workers in 2005, this industry acco

highest DART rate among industry sectors. Financial activities had the lowest DART rate i
141.1

147.2

146.8

209.1

110.6

114.2

121.8

119.5

117.8

110.7111.7

110.0

103.3

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 

Limited-service eating places

Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods

Full-service restaurants

Supermarkets and other grocery stores

Building equipment contractors

Merchant wholesalers, durable goods

Fabricated metal product manufacturing

Food manufacturing

Ambulatory health care services

Administrative and support services

General merchandise stores

Transportation equipment manufacturing

Nursing and residential care facilities

Hospitals

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Industries with at least 100,000 nonfatal occupational injuries a

2004 and 2005

Fourteen industries, each having at least 100,000 injuries and illnesses, accounted for 1.9 injuries and illnesses, or 46 percent of the 4.2 million total cases in 2005. These same fourtindustries each had greater than 100,000 injuries and illnesses in 2003 and 2004.

Numbers in thousands
Social

 assistance

 (NAICS 624)

10%

Nursing & residential 

care facilities 

(NAICS 623)

30%

Ambulatory health care 

services

(NAICS 621)

16%

Hospitals

 (NAICS 622)

39%

Education services 

(NAICS 61)

5%

Percent of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses, educatio

services industries, 2005

The health care and social assistance sector accounted for nearly 95 percent of all injury and within education and health services in 2005. Hospitals alone accounted for nearly 40 percecases in this major industry sector in 2005, reporting more cases (281,500) than any other ind

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

H

Health care & socialassistance (NAICS 62)Education services(NAICS 61)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Total recordable nonfatal occupational injury and illness incid

education and health services industries, 2003-2005

4.3

8.1

2.8

5.9

2.4

0 2 4 6 8 

Social assistance - NAICS 624

Nursing and residential care

facilities - NAICS 623

Hospitals - NAICS 622

Ambulatory health care

services - NAICS 621

Health care and social

assistance - NAICS 62

Education services - NAICS 61

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

Within the education and health services major industry sector, the rate of injuries and illhealth care and social assistance was more than two times higher than the rate for educa

services in 2005. Of the four 3-digit NAICS industries within health care and social assist

were among the fourteen industries reporting 100,000 or more cases for the past three ye
Of the more than 4.2 million nonfatal injuries and illnesses reported in 2005, nearly 4.0 m94.2 percent were injuries. The remainder of these private industry cases (242,500) were occupational illnesses. This distribution of injuries versus illnesses is unchanged from 

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Total nonfatal cases in private industry, 

injuries versus illnesses, 2005

4,214,200 total injury and illness cases

Injuries

3,971,700

(94.2%)

Illnesses

242,500

(5.8%)
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Other services

Leisure and hospitality

Health care and social assistance

Education services

Education and health services

Professional and business services

Financial activities

Information

Utilities

Transportation and warehousing

Retail trade

Wholesale trade

Trade, transportation, and utilities

Service-providing

Manufacturing

Construction

Mining

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Natural resources and mining

Goods-producing

Private Industry

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Total recordable nonfatal occupational injury incidence 

by selected industries, 2004-2005

Nationwide, the incidence rate for injuries in 2005 declined by 0.1 case to 4.4 cases per 100 fullworkers. Among industry sectors, incidence rates for injuries ranged from 1.5 cases per 100 fuworkers in financial activities to 6.7 cases per 100 full-time workers in transportation and wareh
Percent of nonfatal occupational injuries by selected industry s

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Manufacturing, health care and social assistance, and retail trade combined accoufor 51 percent of all reported occupational injuries for private industry in 2005.

Manufactur

20.2%

Heath care & social 

assistance 15.7%

Wholesale trade

6.0%

Construction

10.2%

Agriculture, forestry, 

fishing, & hunting

1.3%

Leisure and hospitality 9.7%

Other services 2.3%

Mining

0.5 %

Education services0.9%

Professional & 

business services 6.9%

Financial activities 2.8%

Utilities 0.6%

Transportation &

warehousing 6.8% 

Information 1.3%

Retail trade

14.8%
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 

Other services

Leisure and hospitality

Health care and social assistance

Education services

Education and health services

Professional and business services

Financial activities

Information

Utilities

Transportation and warehousing

Retail trade

Wholesale trade

Trade, transportation, and utilities

Service-providing

Manufacturing

Construction

Mining

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Natural resources and mining

Goods-producing

Private Industry

Incidence rates per 10,000 full-time workers

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Total recordable nonfatal occupational illness incidence 

by selected industries, 2004-2005

Manufacturing had the highest incidence rate for illnesses of 66.1 cases per 10,000 full-time workers in 2005.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Percent of nonfatal occupational illnesses by selected industry 

Manufacturing and health care and social assistance combined accounted for mothan 57 percent of all reported occupational illnesses for private industry in 2005

Manufacturing

38.8%

Heath care & social 

assistance 18.6%

Retail trade 6.4%

Utilities 1.0%

Transportation &warehousing 4.5% 

Information 2.2%

Financial activities 3.9%

Professional & business 

services 7.1%

Education services 0.8%

Leisure and hospitality 6.0%

Mining 0.3%

Other services 2.1%

Construction 4.2%

Wholesale trade 2.8%

Agriculture, forestry,

fishing, & hunting 1.3% 
Nonfatal illness cas

 category of illne

private industry, 2

242,500 total case

All otherillnesses62.8%

Among the categories of illness cases, only the number of ‘All other illnesses’ changed significantly in 2005—declining by 5 percent.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of LaborOctober 2006

Percent of nonfatal occupational illnesses, 2004 and 2

Hearing 11.1%

Nonfatal illness cases by

 category of illness,

private industry, 2004

All otherillnesses64.6%

Skin diseases15.6%Respiratoryconditions7.1%

Poisoning1.3%

249,000 total cases

Hearing loss11.4%