| Table 8. Percent distribution of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work1 by selected occupations and number of days away from work, 1998 | ||||||||||
| West Virginia--private industry | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Totalcases | Percent of cases involving | Median days away from work | |||||||
| 1 day | 2 days | 3 to 5days | 6 to 10days | 11 to 20days | 21 to 30days | 31 days or more | ||||
| Total [16,678 cases] | 100.0 | 12.8 | 10.8 | 19.7 | 12.4 | 9.4 | 5.6 | 29.3 | 7 | |
| Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants | 100.0 | 10.1 | 10.2 | 27.0 | 9.9 | 10.1 | 0.4 | 32.4 | 6 | |
| Truck drivers | 100.0 | 6.8 | 10.0 | 22.4 | 15.4 | 9.5 | 5.6 | 30.2 | 7 | |
| Laborers, nonconstruction | 100.0 | 27.7 | 6.8 | 20.3 | 10.3 | 9.0 | 3.9 | 22.1 | 5 | |
| Construction laborers | 100.0 | 21.7 | 12.1 | 17.8 | 5.9 | 6.3 | 20.9 | 15.3 | 5 | |
| Cashiers | 100.0 | 15.8 | 10.9 | 23.5 | 5.7 | 16.9 | 16.0 | 11.1 | 5 | |
| Cooks | 100.0 | 5.7 | 23.2 | 22.3 | 11.4 | 8.4 | 10.8 | 18.2 | 5 | |
| Stock handlers and baggers | 100.0 | 15.0 | 17.7 | 10.5 | 11.1 | 21.6 | 2.6 | 21.5 | 7 | |
| Welders and cutters | 100.0 | 21.4 | 10.1 | 18.9 | 4.0 | 5.4 | 18.0 | 22.2 | 5 | |
| Janitors and cleaners | 100.0 | 23.5 | 5.4 | 28.3 | 13.3 | 8.0 | 0.3 | 21.2 | 3 | |
| Miscellaneous food preparation occupations | 100.0 | 4.9 | 26.5 | 16.4 | 12.7 | 13.4 | 9.2 | 17.0 | 8 | |
| Registered nurses | 100.0 | 9.5 | 4.0 | 43.2 | 15.1 | 2.8 | 2.0 | 23.3 | 5 | |
| Licensed practical nurses | 100.0 | 28.4 | 20.8 | 22.5 | 2.7 | 10.0 | -- | 15.5 | 3 | |
| Supervisors and proprietors, sales occupations | 100.0 | 16.8 | 32.7 | 7.5 | 17.5 | 5.4 | 1.3 | 18.8 | 3 | |
| Carpenters | 100.0 | 12.7 | 10.3 | 23.8 | 19.4 | 5.5 | 12.4 | 15.8 | 7 | |
| Driver-sales workers | 100.0 | 1.1 | 3.5 | 11.7 | 10.6 | 13.4 | -- | 59.6 | 34 | |
| Packaging and filling machine operators | 100.0 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 34.0 | 10.9 | 7.7 | 1.2 | 30.6 | 6 | |
| Sales workers, other commodities | 100.0 | 12.3 | 15.5 | 27.6 | 18.1 | 12.9 | 1.0 | 12.7 | 5 | |
| Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators | 100.0 | 1.5 | 7.9 | 12.1 | 7.6 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 59.9 | 64 | |
| Waiters and waitresses | 100.0 | 10.1 | 5.1 | 27.3 | 24.2 | 10.9 | 6.6 | 15.8 | 9 | |
| Butchers and meat cutters | 100.0 | 12.8 | 17.9 | 15.9 | 18.2 | 9.9 | 5.1 | 20.2 | 6 | |
| Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators | 100.0 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 10.2 | 4.9 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 73.4 | 119 | |
| Maids and housemen | 100.0 | -- | 5.9 | 33.7 | 34.2 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 20.1 | 6 | |
| Health aides, exc. nursing | 100.0 | 6.7 | 3.5 | 7.8 | 64.0 | 13.2 | 1.3 | 3.6 | 6 | |
| Industrial machinery repairers | 100.0 | 3.7 | 7.2 | 14.4 | 18.9 | 11.5 | 12.0 | 32.2 | 13 | |
| Kitchen workers, food preparation | 100.0 | 30.6 | 11.6 | 13.0 | 5.2 | 13.9 | 2.6 | 23.2 | 5 | |
| Assemblers | 100.0 | 16.5 | 8.0 | 9.8 | 16.2 | 3.7 | 14.0 | 31.7 | 10 | |
| Electricians | 100.0 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 10.7 | 6.6 | 5.9 | 4.6 | 65.0 | 38 | |
| Stock and inventory clerks | 100.0 | 5.6 | 12.4 | 6.8 | 37.4 | 7.6 | 3.6 | 26.7 | 8 | |
| Operating engineers | 100.0 | -- | 7.4 | 12.4 | 6.2 | 10.2 | 0.7 | 63.0 | 53 | |
| Automobile mechanics | 100.0 | 14.5 | 12.8 | 43.0 | -- | 8.5 | 6.9 | 14.3 | 4 | |
| Traffic, shipping, and receiving clerks | 100.0 | 20.6 | 7.3 | 25.4 | 1.1 | 7.6 | -- | 37.9 | 5 | |
| 1 Days-away-from-work cases include those which result in days away from work with or without | SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, Survey of Occupational | |||||||||
| restricted work activity. | Injuries and Illnesses in cooperation with participating State agencies. | |||||||||
| NOTE: Dashes indicate data that are not available. Because of rounding and data exclusion of | ||||||||||
| nonclassifiable responses, data may not sum to the totals. | ||||||||||