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Appendix B: Occupations with High Risk for Occupational Morbidity |
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The following occupations were identified as “high risk” because they had injury and illness1 rates that exceeded 5 per 100 full-time workers – more than two-and-a-half times the overall national injury and illness rate – according to the BLS Annual Survey in 1999 (the most recent data available when the indicator was originally developed). Also listed are the corresponding 1990 Census Occupation Codes.
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| Census Occupation Code |
Occupation |
| 235 |
Technicians, n.e.c. |
| 444 |
Miscellaneous food preparation occupations |
| 463 |
Public transportation attendants |
| 496 |
Timber cutting and logging occupations |
| 527 |
Telephone line installers and repairers |
| 576 |
Electrician apprentices |
| 596 |
Sheetmetal duct installers |
| 597 |
Structural metal workers |
| 706 |
Punching and stamping press machine operators |
| 709 |
Grinding, abrading, buffing and polishing machine operators |
| 727 |
Sawing machine operators |
| 755 |
Extruding and forming machine operators |
| 766 |
Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, exc. food |
| 768 |
Crushing and grinding machine operators |
| 804 |
Truck drivers |
| 806 |
Driver-sales workers |
| 853 |
Excavating and loading machine operators |
| 859 |
Misc. material moving equipment operators |
| 866 |
Helpers, construction trades |
| 869 |
Construction laborers |
| 874 |
Production helpers |
| 883 |
Freight, stock, and material handlers, nec |
| 889 |
Laborers, except construction |
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| Technical Note: |
The list of high-risk occupations will be updated every five years since over time there will be some changes to the list as occupational morbidity rates for individual occupations fluctuate. It is not anticipated that year-to-year changes will have significant effect on comparative or trend analyses, but these changes will be evaluated.
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| 1Limited to injuries and illnesses that resulted in days away from work. |
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