Workplace Fatalities Continue to Increase, with Transportation Incidents #1 Cause
On the job fatal accidents continue upward trend for third year in a row. More effective, outcome-based safety training is one way you can buck the trend. Make your community safer, one employee at a time.
There were 5,190 workplace fatalities reported in the U.S. in 2016, a seven percent increase over the previous year.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Census of 2016 Fatal Occupational Injuries, the fatal injury rate increased from 3.4 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers in 2015 to 3.6 in 2016.