Of the more than 4.2 million nonfatal injuries and illnesses reported in 2005, nearly 4.0 million or
94.2 percent were injuries. The remainder of these private industry cases (242,500) were
occupational illnesses. This distribution of injuries versus illnesses is unchanged from 2004.
Manufacturing, health care and social assistance, and retail trade combined accounted
for 51 percent of all reported occupational injuries for private industry in 2005.
Manufacturing had the highest incidence rate for illnesses of 66.1 cases per
10,000 full-time workers in 2005. |
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