The number work-related deaths in Connecticut in 2018 was the highest it’s been since 2010, according to the state Department of Labor. The agency said 48 people lost their lives to work-related injuries in 2018, the latest year for which …
Signs that more people are dying on the job has workers’ advocates demanding that North Carolina’s labor department do more to inspect and punish companies that imperil their workers. Members of the AFL-CIO labor union, the NC Council of Churches …
The Kentucky Labor Cabinet says workplaces in Kentucky have recorded the lowest rate of nonfatal incidents in state history. The most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is for 2016. It says Kentucky’s rate of nonfatal occupational …
The California Department of Industrial Relations has released the 2016 occupational injury and illness data on employer-reported injuries that shows nonfatal worker injured remained steady in the state. Estimates provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Survey of Occupational …
Work-related fatal injuries in the New York metropolitan area (the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa. Metropolitan Statistical Area) totaled 152 in 2013, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The 2013 figure was down …
A federal study shows the rate of workplace injuries dropped last year in Virginia and remained below the national average. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Dec. 4 that for every 100 full-time workers in private industry, Virginia …
The rate of work-related injuries and illnesses among Louisiana’s private sector employers improved to its best level since the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration revised its record-keeping rules in 2002. Louisiana ranked second-best among 41 states and the District …
Texas accounted for about 40 percent of the 663 workers the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said were killed nationwide in oil field-related industries between 2007 and 2012, according to a Houston Chronicle investigation that looked into safety records in …
Almost 163,000 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses were reported among New York private industry employers in 2011, according to data published today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That number translates to an incidence rate of 2.9 cases per …
Total employer costs for employees in private industry ranges from $26.14 per hour in the South to $32.98 in the Northeast. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the same costs are $28.06 in the Midwest and $30.01 in the …
