Characteristics of Injured Workers a. Approximately 70 adolescents die each year from work-related injuries. Injury death rates are highest for workers 65 years and older. 100,000 children, many employed illegally are injured at work each year. Males are more likely to be fatally injured at work.
Homicides account for almost half of women s work-related deaths.
Those in lower socioeconomic groups have higher occupational injury death rates. Native Americans have high occupational injury death rates. Asians have low occupational injury death rates. Death rates from farm machinery injuries are highest in the northcentral states. Overall injury rates per 100,000 workers have declined during this century, while production has increased.