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Table 1. Number and percent distribution of fatal occupational                                                                
Table 2.  Number and percent distribution of fatal work injuries                                                              
Table 3.  Number and percent distribution of fatal occupational                                                               
Table 4.  Number and percent distribution of fatal occupational                                                               
Table 5.  Source documents used to compile information on fatal                                                               
Table 6.  CFOI participating state agencies and telephone numbers                                                             

                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
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G. Toscano   (202) 606-6175                                                                                                         
Media contact:                                    FOR RELEASE:  10 a.m. EDT                                                         
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                FIRST NATIONAL CENSUS OF FATAL OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES                                                                
                                  REPORTED BY BLS                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                    
     About one-third of the 6,083 fatalities due to work injuries in 1992                                                           
resulted from highway accidents or homicides, each of which accounted for over                                                      
1,000 deaths.  Falls and workers being struck by objects followed, leading to                                                       
nearly 600 workers' deaths apiece. These findings are from the first national                                                       
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the                                                      
U.S. Department of Labor.                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                    
     The BLS census uses multiple sources to identify, verify, and profile                                                          
fatal work injuries.  Key information about each workplace fatality (occupation                                                     
and other worker characteristics, equipment being used, and circumstances of                                                        
the event) is obtained by cross-referencing the source records, for example,                                                        
death certificates, workers' compensation records, and reports to federal and                                                       
state agencies.  Table 5 lists the data sources used in the BLS Census of                                                           
Fatal Occupational Injuries.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                    
1992 Census Profiles                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                    
     The incidence of fatal work injury for certain groups of workers is                                                            
greater than their proportion of total employment. These groups include men;                                                        
the self employed; older workers (age 55 and over); those in farming and                                                            
transportation-related occupations; and those in agriculture, mining, and                                                           
construction industries.  Major findings of the BLS census follow:                                                                  
                                                                                                                                    
    * Highway vehicle accidents led all other events, accounting for 18 percent                                                     
    of the 6,083 fatal occupational injuries in 1992.  (See table 1.)                                                               
                                                                                                                                    
    * Homicides were a close second, accounting for 17 percent of the fatally                                                       
    injured workers in 1992.  Homicides were, by far, the most frequent                                                             
    manner in which women workers were fatally injured.                                                                             
                                                                                                                                    
    * A large majority of the fatally injured workers were 25-54 years old.                                                         
    Workers age 55 and over, however, had a higher risk of a fatal injury                                                           
    than their 12 percent share of employment.                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                    
    * Over nine-tenths of the fatally injured workers were men, well above                                                          
    their 55 percent share of the nation's employment.  (See table 2.)  Men                                                         
    are fatally injured more often than women workers primarily because of                                                          
    differences in the industries and occupations where men and women                                                               
    typically work.                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                    
    * The self employed and those working in family businesses accounted for 20                                                     
    percent of the workplace fatalities--double their share of the nation's                                                         
    workers.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                    
    * Occupations with the largest number of worker fatalities included:                                                            
    Operators of transportation equipment; farm workers; construction trades;                                                       
    handlers, helpers, and laborers; and salesworkers.  (See table 3.)                                                              
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    * Among industry groups with the largest number of fatal work injuries were                                                     
    agricultural crop production, special trades construction contractors                                                           
    (for example, roofing and electrical work), trucking and warehousing, and                                                       
    local government (for example, police and firefighters).  (See table 4.)                                                        
                                                                                                                                    
     Data on workplace fatalities by state are available from the state                                                             
agencies participating with BLS in the census program.  Participating agencies                                                      
and their telephone numbers are listed in table 6 of this release.                                                                  
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
Background of the program                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                    
     The 1992 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, part of the recently                                                           
redesigned BLS safety and health statistics program, provides a complete                                                            
count of fatal work injuries.  The annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and                                                       
Illnesses, conducted since 1972, has been redesigned to generate worker and                                                         
case characteristics of nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in addition                                                       
to frequency counts and incidence rates by industry.  Initial results from                                                          
the 1992 survey will be released this December.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                    
     The Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries program is a federal/state                                                           
cooperative venture developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to compile a                                                        
comprehensive, accurate, and timely measure of fatal work injuries that occur                                                       
during the year.  The census approach to compiling data on fatal work injuries                                                      
was initially tested by BLS in a cooperative effort with the Texas Department                                                       
of Health during 1988.  The study, which collected fatality data                                                                    
retrospectively for 1986, showed that:  (1) Multiple data sources, including,                                                       
at times, a followup questionnaire, are necessary to produce an accurate                                                            
count; (2) matching individual fatalities across data sources is feasible;                                                          
(3) for each incident, characteristics of the worker and the circumstances                                                          
are commonly available from administrative reports; and (4) timeliness is                                                           
important in maximizing response for verification purposes.                                                                         
                                                                                                                                    
     The census approach was tested again during 1990-91 to determine whether                                                       
the same kind of data could be obtained from multiple data sources on a current                                                     
basis.  That study, which was conducted in cooperation with the Texas Workers'                                                      
Compensation Commission and the Colorado Department of Health, was successfully                                                     
concluded in May 1991.                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                    
     Thirty-two states and New York City participated in the 1991 BLS census                                                        
program.  The program was expanded to include all 50 states and the District of                                                     
Columbia during 1992.  Funding for the annual census is shared equally between                                                      
BLS and the cooperating states.                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
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TECHNICAL NOTES                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                    
Methods                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                    
     Data for the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries are compiled from                                                           
various state and federal administrative sources--including death certificates,                                                     
workers' compensation reports and claims, reports to various regulatory                                                             
agencies, and medical examiner reports--as well as news reports.  Multiple                                                          
sources are used because studies have shown that no single source captures all                                                      
on-the-job fatalities.  Source documents are matched so that each fatality is                                                       
counted only once.  To ensure that a fatality occurred while the decedent was                                                       
at work, information is verified from two or more independent source documents,                                                     
or from a source document and a followup questionnaire.  Approximately 30 data                                                      
elements are collected, coded, and tabulated, including information about the                                                       
worker, the fatal incident, and the machinery or equipment involved.                                                                
                                                                                                                                    
Definitions                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                    
     For a fatality to be considered within the scope of the program, the                                                           
decedent must have been employed (that is working for pay, compensation, or                                                         
profit) at the time of the event, engaged in a legal work activity, or present                                                      
at the site of the incident as a requirement of his or her job.  These criteria                                                     
are generally broader than the criteria used by federal and state agencies                                                          
administering specific laws and regulations.                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                    
     Data presented in this release include deaths occurring in 1992 that                                                           
resulted from traumatic occupational injuries.  An injury is defined as any                                                         
intentional or unintentional wound or damage to the body resulting from acute                                                       
exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, chemical, or other form of energy                                                      
or from the absence of such essentials as heat or oxygen caused by a specific                                                       
event or incident or series of events within a single workday or shift.                                                             
Included are open wounds, intracranial and internal injuries, heatstroke,                                                           
hypothermia, poisonings and asphyxiations resulting from a short-term exposure                                                      
(limited to the worker's shift), suicides and homicides, and work injuries                                                          
listed as underlying or contributory causes of death.                                                                               
                                                                                                                                    
     Information on work-related fatal illnesses are excluded from the BLS                                                          
census and the attached tables because of the latency period of many                                                                
occupational illnesses and the resulting difficulties associated with linking                                                       
illnesses to work.  Partial information on fatal occupational illnesses,                                                            
compiled separately, is available to researchers upon request.  A total of                                                          
1,361 illness cases were collected and coded in 1992.  These cases were                                                             
primarily heart attacks that occurred at work.                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                    
Federal/state agency coverage                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                    
     Several federal and state agencies have jurisdiction over workplace safety                                                     
and health.  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and                                                           
affiliated agencies in states with approved safety programs cover the largest                                                       
portion of America's workers.  However, accidents occurring in several other                                                        
industries, such as coal, metal and nonmetal mining, and transportation on                                                          
water, rails, or in the air, are excluded from OSHA coverage because they are                                                       
covered by other federal agencies, such as the Mine Safety and Health                                                               
Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Federal Railroad Administration, and                                                      
the Federal Aviation Administration.  Fatalities occurring in industries                                                            
regulated by federal agencies other than OSHA accounted for about 11 percent of                                                     
the fatal work injuries for 1992.                                                                                                   
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     Fatalities occurring among several other groups of workers are generally                                                       
not covered by any federal or state agencies.  These groups include self-                                                           
employed and unpaid family workers, which accounted for about 20 percent of the                                                     
fatalities; laborers on small farms, accounting for about 5 percent of the                                                          
fatalities; and state and local government employees in states without OSHA-                                                        
approved safety programs, about 4 percent.  (About one-half of the states have                                                      
approved OSHA safety programs which include state and local government                                                              
employees in their coverage.)                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
     The Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries includes data for all fatal work                                                     
injuries, whether they are covered by OSHA or other federal or state agencies                                                       
or are outside the scope of regulatory coverage.  Thus, any comparison between                                                      
the BLS census counts and those released by other agencies should take into                                                         
account the different coverage and definitions being used.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:  BLS thanks the participating states for their efforts in                                                     
implementing this new program and appreciates the efforts of all state and                                                          
federal agencies that submitted source documents used to identify fatal work                                                        
injuries.  Among these agencies are the Occupational Safety and Health                                                              
Administration; the National Transportation Safety Board; the Department of                                                         
Justice (Bureau of Justice Assistance); the Mine Safety and Health                                                                  
Administration; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the National                                                        
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; the Employment Standards                                                              
Administration (Federal Employees' Compensation and Longshore and Harbor                                                            
Workers' divisions); the Department of Energy; the state vital statistics                                                           
registrars, coroners, and medical examiners; the state departments of health,                                                       
labor, and industries, and workers' compensation agencies; the state highway                                                        
departments; and the state farm bureaus.                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
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PUBLIC USE DATABASE                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                    
     A public use database will be available on diskette in February 1994.                                                          
Because the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data are collected under a                                                        
pledge of confidentiality, all personal identifiers will be deleted from the                                                        
research file.  The database will include about 30 data elements for each                                                           
workplace fatality (for example, demographics of the deceased, nature of the                                                        
injury), along with a short narrative on how the incident occurred.  The                                                            
database diskette will be available at cost from BLS.  To place an order for                                                        
the diskette, contact Cheong Underwood at 202-606-7789.                                                                             
                                                                                                                                    
     The national Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries database will not                                                           
identify the state where the fatality occurred.  State-specific data on                                                             
workplace fatalities may be requested from state agencies participating with                                                        
BLS in the census program.  (See table 6.)                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
DEVELOPMENTAL FATALITY RATES                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                    
     On a developmental basis, fatality counts from the BLS census were                                                             
combined with information on employment to estimate how frequently groups of                                                        
workers sustain fatal work injuries.  The results of this work, along with                                                          
information about their interpretation and limitations, will be published in                                                        
a future issue of the BLS Monthly Labor Review.  For additional information,                                                        
contact the Office of Safety, Health, and Working Conditions at 202-606-6175.                                                       
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
      Table 1. Number and percent distribution of fatal occupational                                                                
          injuries by event or exposure, 1992                                                                                       
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                                                   Fatalities                                                                       
          Event or exposure1                    Number    Percent                                                                   
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                  Total.......................  6,083       100                                                                     
                                                                                                                                    
          Transportation accidents............  2,441        40                                                                     
            Highway accidents.................  1,121        18                                                                     
              Collisions between vehicles,                                                                                          
               mobile equipment...............    553         9                                                                     
              Noncollision accidents..........    292         5                                                                     
            Nonhighway accidents (farm,                                                                                             
             industrial premises).............    436         7                                                                     
            Aircraft accidents................    350         6                                                                     
            Workers struck by vehicle.........    342         6                                                                     
            Water vehicle accidents...........    110         2                                                                     
            Railway accidents.................     66         1                                                                     
                                                                                                                                    
          Assaults and violent acts...........  1,216        20                                                                     
            Homicides.........................  1,004        17                                                                     
              Shooting........................    822        14                                                                     
              Stabbing........................     82         1                                                                     
            Self-inflicted injury.............    183         3                                                                     
                                                                                                                                    
          Contacts with objects and equipment.  1,001        16                                                                     
            Struck by object..................    558         9                                                                     
              Struck by falling object........    360         6                                                                     
              Struck by flying object.........     79         1                                                                     
            Caught in or compressed                                                                                                 
             by equipment or objects..........    312         5                                                                     
            Caught in or crushed in                                                                                                 
             collapsing materials.............    110         2                                                                     
                                                                                                                                    
          Falls...............................    590        10                                                                     
            Fall to lower level...............    500         8                                                                     
            Fall on same level................     60         1                                                                     
                                                                                                                                    
          Exposures to harmful substances or                                                                                        
           environments.......................    593        10                                                                     
            Contact with electric current.....    334         5                                                                     
            Exposure to caustic, noxious,                                                                                           
             or allergenic substances.........    118         2                                                                     
            Oxygen deficiency.................    109         2                                                                     
              Drowning, submersion............     76         1                                                                     
                                                                                                                                    
          Fires and explosions................    167         3                                                                     
                                                                                                                                    
          Other events and exposures2........      75         1                                                                     
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            1 Based on the 1992 BLS Occupational Injury and Illness                                                                 
          Classification Structures.                                                                                                
            2 Primarily includes the category "Bodily reaction and                                                                  
          exertion."                                                                                                                
            NOTE: Totals for major categories may include subcategories not                                                         
          shown separately.  Percentages may not add to total due to                                                                
          rounding.                                                                                                                 
            SOURCE:  Bureau of Labor Statistics, in cooperation with                                                                
          federal and state agencies, Census of Fatal Occupational                                                                  
          Injuries, 1992                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
      Table 2.  Number and percent distribution of fatal work injuries                                                              
          by selected worker characteristics, 1992                                                                                  
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                                              Fatalities                                                                            
          Characteristic                  Number      Percent                                                                       
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            Total fatalities.............  6,083        100                                                                         
                                                                                                                                    
                  Employment status                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                    
          Wage and salary workers........  4,876         80                                                                         
          Self-employed1.................  1,207         20                                                                         
                                                                                                                                    
                  Sex and age                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                    
          Men............................  5,657         93                                                                         
          Women..........................    426          7                                                                         
                                                                                                                                    
          Both sexes:                                                                                                               
           Under 20 years................    169          3                                                                         
           20 to 24 years................    528          9                                                                         
           25 to 34 years................  1,521         25                                                                         
           35 to 44 years................  1,511         25                                                                         
           45 to 54 years................  1,143         19                                                                         
           55 to 64 years................    751         12                                                                         
           65 years and over.............    460          8                                                                         
                                                                                                                                    
                 Race                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                    
          White..........................  5,069         83                                                                         
          Black..........................    608         10                                                                         
          Asian or Pacific Islander......    166          3                                                                         
          Other..........................    240          4                                                                         
                                                                                                                                    
                 Hispanic origin                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
          Hispanic2......................    508          8                                                                         
                                                                                                                                    
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            1 Includes paid and unpaid family workers and may include                                                               
          owners of incorporated businesses, or members of partnerships.                                                            
            2 Persons identified as Hispanic may be of any race.                                                                    
            NOTE:  Percentages may not add to totals because of rounding.                                                           
            SOURCE:  Bureau of Labor Statistics, in cooperation with                                                                
          federal and state agencies, Census of Fatal Occupational                                                                  
          Injuries, 1992                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
      Table 3.  Number and percent distribution of fatal occupational                                                               
          injuries by occupation, 1992                                                                                              
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                                                          Fatalities                                                                
          Occupation1                                  Number  Percent                                                              
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            Total fatalities.........................  6,083     100                                                                
                                                                                                                                    
          Managerial and professional specialty......    694      11                                                                
            Executive, administrative,                                                                                              
             and managerial..........................    437       7                                                                
            Professional specialty...................    257       4                                                                
                                                                                                                                    
          Technical, sales, and administrative                                                                                      
           support...................................    814      13                                                                
            Technicians and related support..........    199       3                                                                
            Sales occupations........................    497       8                                                                
            Administrative support                                                                                                  
             occupations, including clerical.........    118       2                                                                
                                                                                                                                    
          Service occupations........................    526       9                                                                
            Protective service.......................    273       4                                                                
                                                                                                                                    
          Farming, forestry, and fishing.............    931      15                                                                
            Farming occupations......................    680      11                                                                
            Forestry and logging occupations.........    155       3                                                                
                                                                                                                                    
          Precision production, craft, and repair....  1,054      17                                                                
            Mechanics and repairers..................    269       4                                                                
            Construction trades......................    578      10                                                                
              Supervisors............................     88       1                                                                
              Carpenters.............................     86       1                                                                
              Electricians...........................     83       1                                                                
                                                                                                                                    
          Operators, fabricators, and laborers.......  1,882      31                                                                
            Machine operators, assemblers,                                                                                          
             and inspectors..........................    223       4                                                                
            Transportation and material                                                                                             
             moving occupations......................  1,100      18                                                                
              Motor vehicle operators................    856      14                                                                
                Truck drivers........................    685      11                                                                
                Taxicab drivers and chauffeurs.......    106       2                                                                
              Material moving equipment operators....    163       3                                                                
            Handlers, equipment cleaners,                                                                                           
             helpers, and laborers...................    559       9                                                                
              Construction laborers..................    226       4                                                                
              Other laborers.........................    170       3                                                                
                                                                                                                                    
          Military occupations (Resident Armed Forces)   1542      3                                                                
                                                                                                                                    
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            1 Based on the 1990 Census of Population Occupational                                                                   
          Classification System.                                                                                                    
            2 Includes 16 workers not reported as active duty military, but                                                         
          reported as working in a military occupation.                                                                             
            NOTE:  Totals for major categories may include subcategories                                                            
          not shown separately.  Percentages may not add to totals because                                                          
          of rounding.  There were 28 fatalities for which there was                                                                
          insufficient information to determine an occupational                                                                     
          classification.                                                                                                           
            SOURCE:  Bureau of Labor Statistics, in cooperation with                                                                
          federal and state agencies, Census of Fatal Occupational                                                                  
          Injuries, 1992                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
      Table 4.  Number and percent distribution of fatal occupational                                                               
          injuries by industry, 1992                                                                                                
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                     |                                          Fatalities                                                          
          SIC code1  |  Industry                             Number   Percent                                                       
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                     |     Total fatalities..................  6,083   100                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
                     |    Private industry...................  5,384    89                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
          01-02,07-09| Agriculture, forestry, and fishing....    800    13                                                          
           01        |   Agricultural production--crops......    401     7                                                          
           02        |   Agricultural production--livestock..    164     3                                                          
           07        |   Agricultural services...............    136     2                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
          10-14      | Mining................................    182     3                                                          
           12        |   Coal mining.........................     60     1                                                          
           13        |   Oil and gas extraction..............     83     1                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
          15-17      | Construction..........................    903    15                                                          
           15        |   General building contractors........    169     3                                                          
           16        |   Heavy construction, except building.    240     4                                                          
           17        |   Special trades contractors..........    494     8                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
          20-39      | Manufacturing.........................    751    12                                                          
           20        |   Food and kindred products...........     93     2                                                          
           24        |   Lumber and wood products............    220     4                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
          40-42,44-49| Transportation and public utilities...    884    15                                                          
           41        |   Local and interurban transit........    124     2                                                          
           42        |   Trucking and warehousing............    443     7                                                          
           45        |   Air transportation..................     93     2                                                          
           49        |   Public utilities....................     86     1                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
          50,51      | Wholesale trade.......................    244     4                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
          52-59      | Retail trade..........................    710    12                                                          
           54        |   Food stores.........................    205     3                                                          
           55        |   Auto dealers and gas stations.......    108     2                                                          
           58        |   Eating and drinking places..........    187     3                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
          60-67      | Finance, insurance, and real estate...    118     2                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
          70-89      | Services..............................    725    12                                                          
           73        |   Detective, guard, and other                                                                                
                     |    business services..................    200     3                                                          
           75        |   Auto repair, services, and parking..     73     1                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
          91-97      |    Government2........................    699    11                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
                     | Federal...............................    241     4                                                          
                     | State.................................    112     2                                                          
                     | Local.................................    338     6                                                          
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          1 From Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1987 edition.                                                           
          2 Also includes workers employed by governmental organizations in                                                         
            other SICs.  There were 8 fatalities to workers employed by                                                             
            foreign or regional governmental agencies.                                                                              
          NOTE:  Totals for major categories may include subcategories not                                                          
          shown separately.  Percentages may not add to totals because of                                                           
          rounding. There were 67 fatalities for which there was insufficient                                                       
          information to determine a major industry classification within                                                           
          private industry.                                                                                                         
          SOURCE:  Bureau of Labor Statistics, in cooperation with federal and                                                      
          state agencies, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 1992                                                               
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
      Table 5.  Source documents used to compile information on fatal                                                               
          work injuries, 1992                                                                                                       
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                                                  Fatalities                                                                        
          Source document                   Number1        Percent                                                                  
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             Total........................   6,083          100                                                                     
                                                                                                                                    
          Death certificates1.............   5,633           93                                                                     
          State workers' compensation                                                                                               
           reports........................   2,434           40                                                                     
          Coroner, medical examiner,                                                                                                
           and autopsy reports............   3,768           61                                                                     
          Occupational Safety and Health                                                                                            
           Administration (OSHA) reports2..   1,926           32                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
          News media......................   2,077           34                                                                     
          Followup questionnaires3........   1,504           25                                                                     
          State motor vehicle reports.....     485            8                                                                     
          Other federal reports4..........     328            5                                                                     
          Other reports5..................   2,033           33                                                                     
                                                                                                                                    
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            1 The total of source documents (20,188) exceeds the total of                                                           
          verified cases (6,083) because two or more source documents were                                                          
          used to substantiate each case.  Note that some source documents                                                          
          were received only upon request.  In general, these included                                                              
          autopsy, coroner, and medical examiner reports; followup                                                                  
          questionnaires; and state motor vehicle reports.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                    
            The number of death certificates shown includes some death                                                              
          certificates initially not marked "at work."  Seventy-five                                                                
          percent of the death certificates that the states initially                                                               
          received were marked "at work."                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                    
            2 This figure is not a comprehensive count of fatalities                                                                
          reported to or investigated by OSHA, but represents the available                                                         
          OSHA reports used to identify or substantiate a work injury                                                               
          fatality in the CFOI program.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                    
            3 Includes telephone followup for missing data and for                                                                  
          clarification of inconsistent data.                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                    
            4 Includes reports received from the Mine Safety and Health                                                             
          Administration, the Employment Standards Administration, the                                                              
          National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's Fatal                                                             
          Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology program, the Department                                                           
          of Justice, the Department of Energy, and the National                                                                    
          Transportation Safety Board.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                    
            5 Includes reports received from other organizations, such as                                                           
          state farm bureaus, local police departments, and emergency                                                               
          medical services.                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                    
            SOURCE:  Bureau of Labor Statistics, in cooperation with                                                                
          federal and state agencies, Census of Fatal Occupational                                                                  
          Injuries, 1992                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
      Table 6.  CFOI participating state agencies and telephone numbers                                                             
                                                                                                                                    
 STATE                 AGENCY                                  TELEPHONE #                                                          
 Alabama               Department of Labor                     (205) 242-3460                                                       
 Alaska                Department of Labor                     (907) 465-4520                                                       
 Arizona               Industrial Commission                   (602) 542-3739                                                       
 Arkansas              Department of Labor                     (501) 682-4542                                                       
 California            Department of Industrial Relations      (415) 703-5661                                                       
 Colorado              Department of Health                    (303) 692-2164                                                       
 Connecticut           Labor Department                        (203) 566-4380                                                       
 Delaware              Department of Labor                     (302) 577-2889                                                       
 District of Columbia  Commission of Public Health             (202) 727-0682                                                       
 Florida               Department of Labor & Emp. & Security   (904) 922-8953                                                       
                                                                                                                                    
 Georgia               Department of Labor                     (404) 656-3032                                                       
 Hawaii                Dept. of Labor and Industrial Relations (808) 586-9005                                                       
 Idaho                 Industrial Commission                   (208) 334-6050                                                       
 Illinois              Department of Public Health             (217) 785-1873                                                       
 Indiana               Department of Labor                     (317) 232-2682                                                       
 Iowa                  Department of Employment Services       (515) 281-5151                                                       
 Kansas                Department of Health and Environment    (913) 296-5641                                                       
 Kentucky              Labor Cabinet                           (502) 564-2454                                                       
 Louisiana             Department of Employment and Training   (504) 342-3126                                                       
 Maine                 Bureau of Labor Standards               (207) 624-6442                                                       
                                                                                                                                    
 Maryland              Division of Labor and Industry          (410) 333-4202                                                       
 Massachusetts         Department of Public Health             (617) 727-2735                                                       
 Michigan              Department of Labor                     (517) 322-1851                                                       
 Minnesota             Department of Labor and Industry        (612) 297-7428                                                       
 Mississippi           Department of Health                    (601) 960-7741                                                       
 Missouri              Bureau of Health Statistics             (314) 751-6274                                                       
 Montana               Department of Labor and Industry        (800) 541-3904                                                       
 Nebraska              Workers' Compensation                   (402) 471-3513                                                       
 Nevada                Div. of Occupational Safety and Health  (702) 687-5240                                                       
 New Hampshire         Department of Public Health             (603) 271-4651                                                       
                                                                                                                                    
 New Jersey            Department of Health                    (609) 984-1863                                                       
 New Mexico            Health and Environment Department       (505) 827-2850                                                       
 New York              Department of Health                    (518) 458-6228                                                       
 New York City         Department of Health                    (212) 788-4585                                                       
 North Carolina        Department of Labor                     (919) 733-2355                                                       
 North Dakota          Workers' Compensation Bureau            (701) 224-3893                                                       
 Ohio                  Department of Health                    (614) 466-4183                                                       
 Oklahoma              Department of Labor                     (405) 528-1500                                                       
 Oregon                Department of Insurance and Finance     (503) 378-8254                                                       
 Pennsylvania          Department of Health                    (717) 783-2548                                                       
                                                                                                                                    
 Rhode Island          Department of Health                    (401) 277-2812                                                       
 South Carolina        Department of Labor                     (803) 734-9613                                                       
 South Dakota          Bureau of Labor Statistics              (816) 426-2483                                                       
 Tennessee             Department of Labor                     (615) 741-1991                                                       
 Texas                 Workers' Compensation Commission        (512) 448-7978                                                       
 Utah                  Industrial Commission                   (801) 530-6823                                                       
 Vermont               Department of Labor and Industry        (802) 828-2765                                                       
 Virginia              Department of Labor and Industry        (804) 786-6427                                                       
 Washington            Department of Labor and Industries      (206) 956-5509                                                       
 West Virginia         Department of Labor                     (304) 558-7890                                                       
 Wisconsin             Workers' Compensation Division          (608) 266-7850                                                       
 Wyoming               Department of Employment                (307) 777-5962