A new federal report says 144 people died in work-related accidents in Louisiana in 2013. The Advocate reports the data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries shows the total was down two …
In 2013, there were 493 fatal occupational injuries in Texas, an 8 percent decrease from 536 in 2012, the Texas Department of Insurance reported. The figures are based on preliminary data released release by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau …
The nation’s largest labor federation says North Dakota continues to have the highest worker death rate in the U.S., with 17.7 fatalities per 100,000 employees in 2012. The data comes from an AFL-CIO report slated to be released next week. …
Federal figures show workplace fatalities increased in the Richmond, Va., metropolitan statistical area in 2012. During the same period, work-related fatal injuries declined in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News metropolitan statistical area, or MSA. Preliminary figures released Tuesday by the U.S. …
The number of Wisconsin workers killed on the job increased 28 percent last year, in part because of an increase in workplace shootings, according to federal statistics released Wednesday. A report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed 114 fatal …
California labor officials have reopened an investigation into a deadly construction accident at the 49ers Levi’s Stadium, the first of two workplace fatalities on the site this year. The California Department of Occupational Safety and Health said Wednesday that it …
Texas had more than 500 work-related fatalities in 2012, an increase of more than 20 percent from the previous year. According to preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor of Statistics, the most dangerous job in …
Workplace fatalities in Wyoming reached the highest number in five years in 2012, slightly surpassing the number of deaths the state has seen in each of the past several years. Last year, 35 people died on the job in Wyoming, …
The U.S. Department of Labor says Dallas-based U.S. Lime Co. has agreed to a settlement in the May 2010 death of a maintenance manager at the company’s St. Clair Mine in Marble City, Okla. The department’s Mine Safety and Health …
On-the-job incidents killed 43 workers in West Virginia in 2011, the third-lowest total since an annual federal census of workplace fatalities began in 1992, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday. The bureau’s preliminary 2011 total was 54.7 percent …