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.   

Last Updated on 10/4/01