Deaths on the job

AFL-CIO - Our 34th annual “Death on the Job” report,  [has the] alarming finding that 385 U.S. workers died every day from hazardous working conditions in 2023, the latest year of data available. For the year, that was 5,283 fatalities from injury and 135,304 from occupational disease.

• Black workers are dying at higher rates than other workers, and Latino workers have the highest job fatality rate, at 26% above the national average.
• The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has only one inspector for every 85,000 workers. With the OSHA’s budget, that comes out to just $3.92 to protect each worker.
• Health care and social assistance workers have seen a 57% increase in serious workplace violence injuries in the last 15 years.
• At least 55 U.S. workers died from preventable exposure to heat—and that is a significant undercount.