Immigrants come to the United States for a variety of reasons. Some come to study, but stay after finding work. Still others emigrate to escape violence in their native country. But whatever their reason, most come to fulfill dreams of a better life. Unfortunately, some immigrants find these dreams shattered as a result of violence, highway traffic accidents, or other fatal incidents in the workplace.
Some immigrants are in the professional specialties such as medicine, engineering, and teaching.
Others work in family run businesses, such as convenience stores and stationery shops. This variance in job-related homicide was even more pronounced for certain occupations. Highway traffic incidents, which resulted in 20 percent of the fatal work injuries of all workers, accounted for 13 percent of the fatalities among foreign-born workers. Falls accounted for 10 percent of fatal work injuries among both the foreign-born and all U.S. workers. Fatal work injuries among foreign-born workers were less likely to have resulted from being struck by falling objects and from nonhighway transportation incidents such as tractor rollovers than were fatalities among other workers.