A descriptive study of work-related fatalities occurring between 1992 through 1999 involving extractive occupations was conducted using data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries program. Extractive occupations are primarily associated with the mining industry--an industry that has recorded the highest overall fatality rate for the eight years covered by the study. A total of 596 fatal work injuries involving extractive occupations were recorded over the period of the study, with 556 (or 93%) of those occurring in mining. Over half of the fatalities in mining were in the oil and gas extraction industry (SIC 13). Fatally-injured workers were predominantly male (99%) and White (93%). About one in four fatal work injuries involved workers who were struck by objects, as compared to about one in ten for all U.S. workers. Another 15 percent of the cases resulted from workers being caught in or crushed by collapsing materials. Mining Machine Operators recorded the highest number of fatal work injuries over the period covered by the study (209 cases), followed by Mining Occupations, n.e.c. (162 cases) and Drillers, Oil Wells (127 cases). In all three occupations, the most frequent fatal event was "struck by object."
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Keywords: Occupational Injury and Death,
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