1997 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries — 1998-08-12

reported the largest number of fatal work injuries and accounted for half number of workers killed in crashes with objects on the side of the road, driving the vehicle at the time of the incident. Almost half of the from railway crashes, while relatively few in number, were at the highest level in the last six years. Most of these fatalities occurred when the vehicle the worker was driving or riding in was struck by a train at a in 1997, worker deaths from aircraft crashes were at their lowest level in about one-tenth of the total and declined by over one-third from the totals to their highest level in the six years data have been collected Fatal injuries to truck drivers were at their highest level in the in 1997 over the 1996 total, yet this remains one of the most dangerous can be used to evaluate the relative risk of a job-related fatality for a can be used