Manufacturing, health care
and social assistance, and
retail trade combined
accounted for more than
half of all reported injuries.
A total of 1.3 million injuries, or 32 percent, occurred in the goods-producing
industries while 2.7 million, or 68 percent, occurred in the service-providing
industries.
Goods-producing industries employed nearly 22 percent of the private sector
workforce covered by this program, while service-providing industries employed
78 percent of the workforce.
Other services
2.3%
Leisure and hospitality
9.4%
Agriculture, forestry,
fishing and hunting
1.3%
Mining
0.5%
Construction
9.8%
Health care and social
assistance
15.9%
Manufacturing
20.9%
Education services
0.9%
Professional and
Business services
6.6%
Financial activities
2.6%
Wholesale trade
5.8%
Information
1.3%
Utilities
0.6% Transportation and
warehousing
6.9%
Retail trade
15.2%
4.0 million total injury cases
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, November 2005