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Fatal Occupational Injuries by Year, All Industries, New Jersey and the United States, 2008 to 2023
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Why Is This Important?
Each day, U.S. workers suffer injury, disability, and death from workplace incidents. In 2023, 5,283 U.S. workers died from an occupational injury and approximately 2.6 million workers had a nonfatal injury or illness. Occupational injuries are largely preventable, and ongoing surveillance of occupational fatalities can help public health and other governmental agencies track and prevent future work-related fatal injuries.
Definition
Fatal occupational injuries among employed persons age 16 years and older, when the injury occurred while the individual was working for pay, or volunteering in the same capacity as other paid workers, at the time of the event, and engaged in a legal work activity either on or off of the employer's premises.
Data Notes
The numerator and denominator refer to the Fatal Occupational Incidence Rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Individuals under 16 years of age are included in the counts, but are excluded from the incidence rates since the Current Population Survey hours of exposure data exclude them: [http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshnotice10.htm]Data Source
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor(https://www.bls.gov/)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of fatal occupational injuries during a specified time interval, excluding workers under the age of 16, volunteers, or resident military.Denominator:
Estimated number of employed persons age 16 years and older during a specified time interval. Fatal injury rates exclude workers under the age of 16 years, volunteers, and resident military.
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective OSH-01
U.S. Target: Reduce deaths from work-related injuries to 2.9 per 100,000 full-time workers by 2030.0
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/workplace/reduce-deaths-work-related-injuries-osh-01
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective OSH-1.1
U.S. Target: Reduce deaths from work-related injuries in all industries to 3.6 deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers by 2020.0
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/occupational-safety-and-healthHealthy People 2020 Objective OSH-1.3
U.S. Target: Reduce deaths from work-related injuries in construction to 9.7 deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers by 2020.0
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/occupational-safety-and-health
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective OSH-1a
NJ Target: Reduce work-related injury deaths to 1.7 per 100,000 employed persons by 2020.0
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/occupational-safety-health.shtmlHealthy NJ 2020 Objective OSH-1b
NJ Target: Reduce construction work-related injury deaths to 8.8 per 100,000 construction workers by 2020.0
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/occupational-safety-health.shtml