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Appendix C: Industries and Occupations with High Risk for Occupational Mortality

TThe industries and occupations listed in the table below were identified as “high risk” because they had excessive injury fatality rates. The industries had injury death rates greater than 10 per 100,000 in 1998 – more than double the national rate that year – according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI). The occupations had injury death rates greater than 20 per 100,000 workers.

Accompanying each industry in the table is the associated 1990 Bureau of the Census industry code. Note that the table in Appendix A lists industries using Standard Industry Classification (SIC) codes. These two tables are not consistent because the sources of the “high risk” industries differ for Indicator 14 and Indicator 16 (the BLS Annual Survey was used to identify the industries for Indicator 14). The Annual Survey is limited to private sector hired workers while CFOI includes anyone working for pay, including the self-employed. The most appropriate source of data on the total number employed is the Current Population Survey (CPS), which is conducted by the Census Bureau. The CPS utilizes Census Bureau industry codes. The table below also illustrates 1990 Bureau of the Census codes for each occupation listed.

Industries		Occupations
010	Agricultural crop production	226	Airplane pilots and navigators
011	Agricultural livestock production	461	Guides
020	Landscape and horticultural services	473	Farmers, except horticultural
030	Agricultural services	475	Managers, farms, except horticultural
031	Forestry	477	Supervisors, farm workers
032	Fishing, hunting and trapping	479	Farm workers
040	Metal mining	496	Timber cutting and logging occupations
041	Coal mining	498	Fishers
042	Oil and gas extraction	576	Electrician apprentices
050	Nonmetallic mining and quarrying, except fuel	577	Electrical power installers and repairers
060	Construction	595	Roofers
201	Miscellaneous petroleum and coal products	597	Structural metal workers
230	Logging	599	Constructions trades, nec
251	Cement, concrete, gypsum and plaster products	613	Supervisors, extractive occupations
360	Ship and boat building and repair	616	Mining machine operators
402	Taxicab service	804	Truck drivers
410	Trucking service	806	Driver-sales workers
420	Water transportation	809	Taxicab drivers and chauffeurs
471	Sanitary services	829	Sailors and deckhands
500	Wholesale motor vehicles and equipment	853	Excavating and loading machine operators
531	Wholesale scrap and waste materials	855	Grader, dozer, and scraper operators
551	Wholesale farm product raw materials	859	Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators
552	Wholesale petroleum products	869	Construction laborers
590	Mobile home dealers	875	Garbage collectors
622	Miscellaneous vehicle dealers
650	Liquor stores
752	Electrical repair shops

Technical Note:

The list of high-risk industries and occupations will be updated every five years since over time there will be some changes to the list as occupational mortality rates for individual occupations and industries 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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