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2007 SURVEY OF OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES & ILLNESSES

SUMMARY ESTIMATES CHARTS PACKAGE

October 23, 2008
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Nonfatal occupational injury and illness incidence rates

by case type, private industry, 2003-2007

5.0

2.6

1.5

1.1

2.4

4.8

2.5

1.4

1.1

2.3

4.6

2.4

1.4

1.0

2.2

4.4

2.3

1.3

1.0

2.1

4.2

2.1

1.2

2.1

. 9

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

TRC DART DAFW DJTR ORC

Case type

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

TRC=total recordable cases

DART=days away from work, job transfer, or restriction cases

DAFW=days away from work cases

DJTR=days of job transfer or restriction only cases

ORC=other recordable cases

Incidence rates of injuries and illnesses combined declined significantly in 2007 for 

several case types—TRC, DART, DAFW, and DJTR—but remained unchanged for ORC. 

Nonfatal injuries and illnesses among private industry workplaces in 2007 occurred at 

their lowest rate since the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses first published 

estimates based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) in 2003.
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Nonfatal injuries and illnesses occurred with the greatest frequency among mid-size establishments 

(those employing 50 to 249 workers) and least often among small establishments (those employing 

1 to 10 workers) compared to establishments of other sizes in 2007. While rates among size 1 and 

size 2 establishments remained relatively unchanged in 2007 compared to 2006, rates for the 

largest three size classes decreased significantly in 2007 from the year earlier.

Total recordable nonfatal occupational injury and illness incidence rates

by employment size class, private industry, 2003-2007

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 5.2

1.9

3.9

5.5

5.0 4.9

1.9

3.8

5.3

4.7

4.5

1

2

3

4

5

6

Size 1

1-10 employees

Size 2

11-49 employees

Size 3

50-249 employees

Size 4

250-999 employees

Size 5

1000+ employees

Employment size class

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Total recordable nonfatal occupational injury and illness incidence rates by 

private goods-producing and service-providing domains, 2003-2007

3.8

5.4

4.2

3.9

5.9

4.4

4.1

6.2

4.6

4.2

6.5

4.8

4.4

6.7

5.0

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Service-providing

industries

Goods-producing industries

Total Private industry

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Similar to private industry, the rate at which nonfatal injuries and illnesses occurred among both 

goods-producing industries as a whole and service-providing industries as a whole declined 

significantly in 2007—from 5.9 to 5.4 cases and 3.9 to 3.8 cases per 100 workers, respectively.
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Total recordable nonfatal occupational injury and illness incidence rates

among goods-producing private industry sectors, 2006-2007

5.6

5.4

3.1

5.4

6.0

5.9

3.5

6.0

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Manufacturing

Construction

Mining

Agriculture, forestry, fishing

& hunting

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

2006

2007

Total recordable nonfatal injury and illness incidence rates among all 

four goods-producing industry sectors declined significantly in 2007.
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Total recordable nonfatal injury and illness incidence rates 

among service-providing private industry sectors, 2006-2007

1.3

4.5

5.3

5.8

3.4

3.3

1.9

4.1

6.5

4.9

4.1

3.1

4.4

5.3

5.6

2.4

3.3

1.9

2.9

4.0

6.4

4.8

4.0

2.0

.9

2.9

2.3

2.1

1.2

.9

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Other services

Accommodation & food services

Arts, entertainment, & recreation

Health care & social assistance

Education services

Admin & support & waste management & remediation

Management of companies

Professional, scientific, & technical services

Real estate & rental & leasing

Finance & insurance

Information

Utilities

Transportation & warehousing

Retail trade

Wholesale trade

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

2006

2007

With its rate statistically unchanged from 2006, transportation and warehousing continued to 

experience injuries and illnesses at a higher rate (6.4 cases per 100 workers) than all other serviceproviding industry sectors in 2007. Among the 15 service-providing private industry sectors, only 

health care and social assistance saw its rate of injuries and illnesses decline significantly in 2007. 
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

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

by case type among goods-producing private industry sectors, 2007

0 100 200 300 400 500

Manufacturing

Construction

Mining

Agriculture, forestry, fishing

& hunting

Number in thousands

Cases with days away from work

Cases with job transfer or restriction only

Manufacturing has continued a trend from 1998 to 2007 during which it has been the only industry sector where 

the number of cases with job transfer or restriction only exceeded the number of cases with days away from work.
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

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

by case type among service-providing private industry sectors, 2007

0 50 100 150 200 250 300

Other services

Accommodation & food services

Arts, entertainment, & recreation

Health care & social assistance

Education services

Admin & support & waste management & remediation

Management of companies & enterprises

Professional, scientific, & technical services

Real estate & rental & leasing

Finance & insurance

Information

Utilities

Transportation & warehousing

Retail trade

Wholesale trade

Number in thousands

Cases with days away from work

Cases with job transfer or restriction only

No service-providing industry sector experienced a higher number of cases with job transfer or 

restriction only compared to cases with days away from work in 2007. However, the numbers of such 

cases for the management of companies and enterprises sector were relatively the same in 2007.
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Incidence rates for cases with days away from work, job transfer, or restriction, 

goods-producing and service-providing industries, 2007

1.1

1.5

1.2

1.4

. 8

. 9

0 1 2 3 4

Service-providing industries

Goods-producing industries

Total Private Industry

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

Cases with days away from work Cases with job transfer or restriction only

Among private industry workplaces in 2007, the rate for cases with days away from work (1.2 cases per 100 

full-time workers) was higher than the rate for cases involving job transfer or restriction only (0.9 cases). This 

was also true for goods-producing industries as a whole and for service-providing industries as a whole.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Incidence rates for cases with days away from work, job transfer, or restriction 

by case type and goods-producing private industry sector, 2007

1.3

1.9

1.4

1.8

1.7

1.0

.9

.6

0 1 2 3 4

Manufacturing

Construction

Mining

Agriculture, forestry, fishing

& hunting

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

Cases with days away from work Cases with job transfer or restriction only

Manufacturing has continued a trend from 1998 to 2007 during which it has been the only 

industry sector where the rate at which injury and illness cases occurred involving cases with job 

transfer or restriction only exceeded the rate at which cases with days away from work occurred. 
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Incidence rates for cases with days away from work, job transfer, or restriction 

by case type and service-providing private industry sector, 2007

1.0

1.4

1.4

1.2

1.0

1.2

2.7

1.4

1.3

1.1

1.1

1.6

1.2

1.1

1.0

.7

.5

.3

.3

.7

.9

.5

.6

.3

.6

.4

.2

.5

.1

.4

0 1 2 3 4 5

Other services

Accommodation & food services

Arts, entertainment, & recreation

Health care & social assistance

Education services

Admin & support & waste management & remediation

Management of companies & enterprises

Professional, scientific, & technical services

Real estate & rental & leasing

Finance & insurance

Information

Utilities

Transportation & warehousing

Retail trade

Wholesale trade

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

Cases with days away from work Cases with job transfer or restriction only

As was true in 2006, the rates at which both days-away-from-work cases (2.7 cases per 100 

workers) and job transfer or restriction only cases (1.6 cases) occurred were higher in 

transportation and warehousing than for any other service-providing industry sector in 2007. 
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Industries with at least 100,000 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses, private 

industry, 2007

100.9

102.2

104.7

112.0

112.7

112.8

116.1

119.8

120.0

121.6

130.2

140.0

142.0

253.5

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280

Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods (NAICS 424)

Food manufacturing (NAICS 311)

Full-service restaurants (NAICS 7221)

Supermarkets & other grocery stores (NAICS 44511)

Building equipment contractors (NAICS 2382)

Fabricated metal product manufacturing (NAICS 332)

Limited-service eating places (NAICS 72221)

Merchant wholesalers, durable goods (NAICS 423)

Transportation equipment manufacturing (NAICS 336)

Nursing care facilities (NAICS 6231)

Ambulatory health care services (NAICS 621)

Administrative & support services (NAICS 561)

General merchandise stores (NAICS 452)

General medical & surgical hospitals (NAICS 6221)

Number in thousands

These same 14 industries reporting 100,000 or more injury and illness cases in 2007 also did so in 

2006—together combining to account for 1.8 million (45 percent) of the 4 million total cases reported 

nationally in 2007. General medical and surgical hospitals (NAICS 6221) again reported more injuries 

and illnesses than any other private sector industry in 2007. This industry alone accounted for more than 

6 percent of all nonfatal injury and illness cases reported among private industry workplaces in 2007.
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Distribution of nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases in health care and 

social assistance industries, private industry, 2007

Ambulatory health

care services

19.4%

Social

assistance

10.0%

Nursing care

facilities

18.1%

Residential mental 

retardation, mental 

health & substance 

abuse facilities

4.9%

Community care

facilities for elderly

5.9% Other residential

care facilities

1.5%

General medical & 

surgical hospitals

37.8%

Psychiatric & substance 

abuse hospitals

1.0%

Specialty (exc. 

psychiatric & substance 

abuse) hospitals

1.3%

Hospitals

40.1%

Hospitals continued in 2007 to account for more than 4 in 10 injuries and illnesses among health care and social 

assistance industries, with general medical and surgical hospitals (NAICS 6221) accounting for the majority of these.

Hospitals

670,600 injury and illness cases
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Total recordable nonfatal injury and illness incidence rates in selected health care 

and social assistance industries, private industry, 2007

3.9

7.0

8.0

7.6

9.7

6.6

8.5

7.7

3.0

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0

Social assistance (NAICS 624)

Other residential care facilities (NAICS 6239)

Community care facilities for elderly (NAICS 6233)

Residential mental retardation, mental health &

substance abuse facilities (NAICS 6232)

Nursing care facilities (NAICS 6231)

Specialty (exc. psychiatric & substance abuse) hospitals

(NAICS 6223)

Psychiatric & substance abuse hospitals (NAICS 6222)

General medical & surgical hospitals (NAICS 6221)

Ambulatory health care services (NAICS 621)

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

The rate at which injuries and illnesses occurred among specialty (exc. psychiatric and substance abuse) 

hospitals (NAICS 6223) nationally in 2007—6.6 cases per 100 workers—was significantly lower than the rate 

for other types of hospitals. Similarly, nursing care facilities (NAICS 6231) experienced injuries and illnesses at 

a rate (9.7 cases) that was significantly higher than rates for other nursing and residential care facilities in 2007. 
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Total recordable nonfatal occupational illness cases 

by category of illness, private industry, 2007

Skin diseases

0.9%

Injuries

94.8%

All other

illnesses

3.2%

Respiratory

conditions

0.4%

Poisoning

0.1%

Hearing loss

0.6%

Illnesses

5.2%

Illnesses accounted for approximately 1 in 20 of the 4 million injury and illness cases reported among private 

industry workplaces in 2007, with the “All other illnesses” category accounting for more than 6 in 10 illness cases. 

4,002,700 total cases
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Total recordable nonfatal occupational injury incidence rates by 

goods-producing and service-providing sectors, 2003-2007

3.7

5.0

4.0

3.7

5.5

4.2

3.9

5.7

4.4

4.0

5.9

4.5

4.2

6.1

4.7

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Service-providing

industries

Goods-producing industries

Total Private Industry

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

The rate of nonfatal occupational injuries declined to 4.0 cases per 100 full-time workers among private industry 

workplaces in 2007—compared to 4.2 cases in 2006. The decline in the overall injury rate was primarily due to 

a decrease in the rate among goods-producing industries as a whole—falling from 5.5 cases in 2006 to 5.0 

cases in 2007—while the injury rate for service-providing industries as a whole remained unchanged in 2007. 

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Total recordable nonfatal occupational injury incidence rates by 

goods-producing private industry sector, 2006-2007

5.1

5.2

3.0

5.0

5.5

5.8

3.4

5.6

0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Manufacturing

Construction

Mining

Agriculture, forestry, fishing

and hunting

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

2006

2007

Total recordable nonfatal injury rates declined among all four goodsproducing industry sectors in 2007, compared to a year earlier.
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Total recordable nonfatal occupational injury incidence rates 

by service-providing private industry sector, 2006-2007

4.0

2.8

4.4

4.9

5.4

2.2

3.2

2.0

1.1

3.1

0.8

1.8

3.7

6.3

4.8

4.0

3.0

4.3

5.1

5.3

2.3

3.2

1.8

1.2

2.9

0.8

1.9

3.6

4.7

6.2

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Other services

Accommodation & food services

Arts, entertainment, & recreation

Health care and social assistance

Education services

Admin & support & waste management & remediation

Management of companies & enterprises

Professional, scientific, & technical services

Real estate & rental & leasing

Finance and insurance

Information

Utilities

Transportation and warehousing

Retail trade

Wholesale trade

Incidence rates per 100 full-time workers

2006

2007

Transportation and warehousing, whose rate was relatively unchanged from 2006, experienced a higher 

rate of injuries (6.2 cases per 100 workers) than any other service-providing industry sector in 2007. No 

service-providing industry sector experienced a significant change in its injury rate in 2007. 
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Distribution of nonfatal occupational injuries 

by goods-producing private industry sector, 2007

Agriculture, forestry, 

fishing & hunting

1.2%

Mining

0.6%

Serviceproviding

69.6%

Manufacturing

18.8%

Construction

9.8% Goodsproducing

30.3%

More than 3 in 10 injury cases reported in private industry nationally in 2007 

occurred in goods-producing industries. Manufacturing accounted for more 

than 6 in 10 injury cases reported among goods-producing industries.

3,796,400 total injury cases

Goods-producing industry sectors
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Distribution of nonfatal occupational injuries 

by service-providing private industry sector, 2007

Goodsproducing

30.3%

Wholesale

trade

6.1%

Retail trade

15.0%

Transportation & 

warehousing

6.8%

Utilities

0.5%

Information

1.3%

Finance &

insurance

1.3%

Real estate & 

rental & leasing

1.4% Professional, scientific, & 

technical services

2.1%

Management of 

companies

0.8%

Admin & support & waste 

management & 

remediation

Education 4.1%

services

1.0%

Health care

& social

assistance

16.6%

Arts, entertainment,

& recreation

1.7% Accommodation &

food services

8.5%

Other services

2.5%

Serviceproviding

69.6%

Nearly 7 in 10 workplace injuries reported among private industry establishments in 2007 occurred in 

service-providing industries, with more injury cases reported in health care and social assistance than 

any other service-providing industry sector.

3,796,400 total injury cases
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Total recordable nonfatal occupational illness incidence rates by 

goods-producing and service-providing sectors, 2003-2007

17.0

36.7

21.8

18.8

42.6

24.6

19.6

48.5

26.7

19.6

53.5

27.9

21.6

58.6

30.7

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Service-providing

industries

Goods-producing industries

Total Private Industry

Incidence rates per 10,000 full-time workers

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

The rate of nonfatal occupational illnesses among private industry workplaces declined in 2007 to 21.8 cases per 10,000 

full-time workers, compared to 24.6 cases in 2006. Illness rates also declined for goods-producing industries as a whole 

and for service-providing industries as a whole in 2007—from 42.6 to 36.7 cases and 18.8 to 17.0 cases, respectively.
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Total recordable nonfatal occupational illness incidence rates 

by goods-producing private industry sector, 2006-2007

12.5

9.0

33.7

14.9

11.8

41.3

50.5

57.7

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Manufacturing

Construction

Mining

Agriculture, forestry,

fishing & hunting

Incidence rates per 10,000 full-time workers

2006

2007

Among goods-producing industry sectors, only manufacturing experienced a statistically significant 

decline in the rate of illnesses reported in 2007 compared to 2006, while other goods-producing sectors’ 

rates were statistically unchanged. While the illness rate in manufacturing declined in 2007, it remained 

higher than illness rates for other goods-producing industries and more than twice that of private industry.
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

Total recordable nonfatal occupational illness incidence rates 

by service-providing private industry sector, 2006-2007

11.4

12.6

10.9

10.7

14.0

14.7

10.8

13.5

33.5

40.8

12.5

20.3

14.8

10.8

13.5

9.9

14.0

39.7

25.7

13.2

10.3

25.0

34.0

10.1

17.4

9.8

8.0

38.9

23.5

8.7

0 10 20 30 40 50

Other services

Accommodation & food services

Arts, entertainment, & recreation

Health care & social assistance

Education services

Admin & support & waste management & remediation

Management of companies & enterprises

Professional, scientific, & technical services

Real estate & rental & leasing

Finance & insurance

Information

Utilities

Transportation & warehousing

Retail trade

Wholesale trade

Incidence rates per 10,000 full-time workers

2006

2007

Health care & social assistance and Arts, entertainment, & recreation were the 

only two industry sectors in which illness rates declined significantly in 2007.
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2008

CA

(4.4)

ID

OR

(5.1)

WA

(6.1)

MT

(6.3)

WY

(4.6)

UT

(5.0)

CO

AZ

(4.4) NM

(4.6)

TX

(3.4)

OK

(4.5)

KS

(5.1)

NE

(5.0)

SD

ND

MN

(4.7)

WI

(5.3)

IA

(5.5)

IL

(3.8)

OH

IN

(5.1)

KY

(5.2)

WV

(5.2) VA

(3.2)

NC

(3.7)

GA

(3.5)

FL

(3.9)

AL

MS (4.5)

MO

(4.6)

AR

(3.9)

LA

(2.9)

NV

(4.8)

HI

(4.6)

MI

(4.9)

PA

NJ

(3.5)

NY

(3.1)

CT

(4.8)

MA

(4.0)

VT

(5.9)

NH

ME

(6.4)

TN

(4.5)

MD

(3.7)

DE

(3.4)

RI

(5.1)

DC

(1.9)

AK

(5.5)

SC

(3.6)

Survey of Occupational Injuries & Illnesses:

State nonfatal occupational injury and illness incidence rates* 

compared to the national rate, private industry, 2007

State estimates unavailable (collected for national estimates only)

State private industry TRC rate lower than national rate

State estimates not significantly different from national rate

State private industry TRC rate higher than national rate

* Total recordable case (TRC) incidence rate per 100 full-time workers (in parenthesis)

Compared to the national rate of 4.2 cases per 100 full-time workers, injury and illness rates 

were higher in 26 States, lower in 14 States, and not statistically different in 3 States in 2007.