2022 Census of Fatal Occupational Accidents Reveals Disparities

WASHINGTON, DC – The US Department of Labor’s Assistant Secretary for Occupational Security and Health Doug Parker issued an announcement regarding the December nineteenth unlock by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of its 2022 Census of Fatal Occupational Accidents:

“This day’s announcement by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of a 5.7 p.c amplify in fatal occupational accidents is a sobering reminder of the significant work we must effect, especially for Dim and Hispanic workers who saw the ideal amplify in position of labor fatalities.

“In 2022, 5,486 workers in the US lost their lives. This equates to one employee loss of life every 96 minutes, with deaths the very ideal amongst transportation and construction workers. We additionally saw teach in disparities for workers of coloration, including Dim workers, whose fatality fee increased 12.4 p.c, and Hispanic workers, whose fee grew by 10.4 p.c.

“No employee ought to ever be deprived attributable to their pores and skin coloration or ethnicity; and that’s rarely more staunch than when it involves their lives and smartly being. For that reason the Department of Labor has expanded its efforts to present protection to those disproportionately liable to accidents and illnesses on the job.

“The BLS census additionally finds work-related overdoses and suicides proceed to be causes of astronomical direct, they normally’re any other call to motion for the Occupational Security and Health Administration, employers and diversified stakeholders to contend with these very well-known points. Mental smartly being desires to be fragment of overall employee safety and smartly being. We’re committed to supporting the psychological smartly being of all workersstaunch as we’re committed to keeping them from physical hazards on the job.

“Every employee loss of life has profound impacts on household, company, co-workers and communities. Attributable to this investing in employee safety and smartly being desires to be a core tag in every position of labor across the nation. All workers possess a appropriate to effect their job with out distress of being injured or sickened.”