Top 10 safest U.S. cities
Is Minneapolis safer than Denver? How about New York City versus Seattle? Forbes magazine has ranked the top 10 safest cities in the U.S. The magazine used four criteria: workplace deaths, violent...
View ArticleRevised stats: Workplace deaths in U.S. increase
It’s official: More workers died in the U.S. in 2010 than in 2009. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has finalized the 2010 numbers. When it released preliminary report in August 2011, BLS said there had...
View ArticleWorkplace deaths decreased in 2011 … or did they?
Preliminary numbers from the federal government show the number of workers who died on the job in 2011 declined from the year before. But the report comes with a big asterisk. A total of 4,609...
View ArticleWorkplace deaths up slightly; fatality rate down a little
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says 4,836 workplace deaths were recorded in the U.S. in 2015, a slight increase from 4,821 in 2014. The overall rate of fatal work injuries in 2015 was 3.38 per 100,000...
View ArticleWorkplace deaths down overall, but spikes appear in some categories
After a one-time jump of 7% from 2015 to 2016, the number of workplace deaths fell slightly in 2017. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says there were 5,147 fatal work injuries in the U.S. in 2017,...
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