2008 Workplace Injuries and Illnesses — 2009-10-29

(The HTML version of this news release was reissued on November 5, 2009, to correct errors in Table 7. Certain rows of that table contained data that were repeated from elsewhere in the table. Table 7 was correct as initially posted in the PDF version of the Workplace Injuries and Illnesses -- 2008 news release.) Nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses among private industry employers in 2008 occurred at a rate of 3.9 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers--a decline from 4.2 cases in 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Similarly, the number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses reported in 2008 declined to 3.7 million cases, compared to 4 million cases in 2007. The total recordable case (TRC) injury and illness incidence rate among private industry employers has declined significantly each year since 2003, when estimates from the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) were first published using the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).