As we know, statistics can be presented to say what you want them to say. The fatality numbers put out by North Carolina do NOT represent all of the work-related deaths in NC in that year. The NC numbers include only those cases they investigate and do not include events such as heart attacks and some vehicle related deaths, which can be significant.
To get the real numbers, one’s we can compare, we need to go to BLS. We then find the following totals for NC:
2004 – 183
2005 – 165
2006 – 168
2007 – 158
The 2008 numbers are not out yet so we can’t compare them to the prior years, but we can see that NC is doing a good job in reducing the overall numbers. You just can’t use their numbers due to how they tabulate them…
So we really don’t know how things are going from 2007 to 2008 yet.
Yeah, for the numbers they use, it looks like an increase. But if you look at their total for 2006, it was 91. In 2005, it was 73. 59 looks pretty good then and about in line for a slower 2008.
There are just too many variables in their numbers to confidently determine trends.
Hold your horses…….
As we know, statistics can be presented to say what you want them to say. The fatality numbers put out by North Carolina do NOT represent all of the work-related deaths in NC in that year. The NC numbers include only those cases they investigate and do not include events such as heart attacks and some vehicle related deaths, which can be significant.
To get the real numbers, one’s we can compare, we need to go to BLS. We then find the following totals for NC:
2004 – 183
2005 – 165
2006 – 168
2007 – 158
The 2008 numbers are not out yet so we can’t compare them to the prior years, but we can see that NC is doing a good job in reducing the overall numbers. You just can’t use their numbers due to how they tabulate them…
So we really don’t know how things are going from 2007 to 2008 yet.
Yeah, for the numbers they use, it looks like an increase. But if you look at their total for 2006, it was 91. In 2005, it was 73. 59 looks pretty good then and about in line for a slower 2008.
There are just too many variables in their numbers to confidently determine trends.