| Table 1. Number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work1 by selected worker characteristics and industry division, 2001 | |||||||||||
| West Virginia--private industry | |||||||||||
| Goods producing | Service producing | ||||||||||
| Characteristic | Private industry 2 | Agriculture, forestry, and fishing 2 |
Mining 3 | Construction | Manufactur- ing |
Transpor- tation and public utilities 4 |
Wholesale trade |
Retail trade | Finance, insurance, and real estate |
Services | |
| Total | 16,219 | 97 | 1,182 | 1,031 | 3,352 | 1,173 | 1,330 | 3,148 | 193 | 4,715 | |
| Sex: | |||||||||||
| Men | 10,101 | 87 | 1,171 | 1,020 | 2,829 | 982 | 1,191 | 1,478 | 88 | 1,256 | |
| Women | 6,052 | 9 | 11 | -- | 513 | 137 | 139 | 1,670 | 105 | 3,457 | |
| Age: | |||||||||||
| 14 to 15 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 16 to 19 | 507 | -- | 17 | -- | 67 | -- | -- | 266 | -- | 97 | |
| 20 to 24 | 1,957 | -- | 62 | 84 | 345 | 193 | 77 | 504 | -- | 680 | |
| 25 to 34 | 4,702 | 48 | 223 | 269 | 1,193 | 510 | 426 | 768 | 47 | 1,219 | |
| 35 to 44 | 4,501 | -- | 293 | 300 | 935 | 254 | 501 | 776 | 62 | 1,351 | |
| 45 to 54 | 3,162 | -- | 445 | 296 | 565 | 176 | 196 | 420 | 55 | 1,008 | |
| 55 to 64 | 1,226 | -- | 97 | 73 | 208 | 34 | 70 | 385 | 19 | 338 | |
| 65 and over | 108 | -- | -- | -- | 30 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Occupation: | |||||||||||
| Managerial and professional specialty | 767 | 13 | 5 | -- | 17 | -- | -- | 245 | 23 | 425 | |
| Technical, sales, and administrative support | 2,327 | -- | -- | -- | 126 | 183 | 163 | 1,001 | 84 | 768 | |
| Service | 3,807 | -- | -- | -- | 76 | -- | -- | 793 | 45 | 2,893 | |
| Farming, forestry, and fishing | 234 | 84 | -- | -- | 125 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Precision production, craft, and repair | 2,489 | -- | 629 | 544 | 555 | 211 | 243 | 202 | -- | 106 | |
| Operators, fabricators, and laborers | 6,574 | -- | 536 | 476 | 2,445 | 771 | 902 | 906 | 38 | 499 | |
| Length of service with employer: | |||||||||||
| Less than 3 months | 2,103 | 16 | 145 | 121 | 339 | 158 | 96 | 371 | 20 | 839 | |
| 3 to 11 months | 2,844 | 16 | 239 | 175 | 440 | 176 | 197 | 638 | 32 | 932 | |
| 1 to 5 years | 5,261 | 34 | 375 | 430 | 996 | 366 | 458 | 1,139 | 49 | 1,415 | |
| More than 5 years | 4,649 | 14 | 368 | 295 | 1,171 | 305 | 480 | 700 | 92 | 1,224 | |
| Not reported | 1,361 | 17 | 55 | -- | 406 | 167 | 100 | 299 | -- | 306 | |
| Race or ethnic origin: | |||||||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 12,336 | 62 | 177 | 948 | 2,798 | 915 | 1,275 | 2,362 | 169 | 3,630 | |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 212 | -- | -- | -- | 43 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 124 | |
| Hispanic | 32 | 9 | -- | -- | 14 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| American Indian or Alaskan Native | 15 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Not reported | 3,621 | -- | 1,005 | 69 | 493 | 254 | 51 | 753 | 20 | 955 | |
| 1Days-away-from-work cases include those which result in days away from work with or without | Oil and Gas Extraction. | ||||||||||
| restricted work activity. | 4Data conforming to OSHA definitions for employers in railroad transportation are provided to | ||||||||||
| 2Excludes farms with fewer than 11 employees. | BLS by the Federal Railroad Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. | ||||||||||
| 3Data conforming to OSHA definitions for mining operators in coal, metal, and nonmetal mining are | NOTE: Dashes indicate data that are not available. Because of rounding and data exclusion of | ||||||||||
| provided to BLS by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. Independent | nonclassifiable responses, data may not sum to the totals. | ||||||||||
| mining contractors are excluded from the coal, metal, and nonmetal mining industries. Data for Mining | |||||||||||
| (Division B in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1987 edition) include establishments not | SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, Survey of Occupational Injuries | ||||||||||
| governed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) rules and reporting, such as those in | and Illnesses in cooperation with participating State agencies. | ||||||||||