| 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, 2001 | ||||||||||
| West Virginia--private industry | ||||||||||
| Percent of cases involving | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Total cases |
1 day | 2 days | 3
to 5 days |
6
to 10 days |
11
to 20 days |
21
to 30 days |
31
days or more |
Median days away from work |
|
| Total [16,219 cases] | 100.0 | 11.6 | 14.4 | 21.3 | 12.9 | 9.8 | 5.5 | 24.5 | 6 | |
| Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants | 100.0 | 11.2 | 21.0 | 22.9 | 9.9 | 12.6 | 5.2 | 17.3 | 4 | |
| Laborers, nonconstruction | 100.0 | 11.3 | 18.4 | 13.7 | 11.1 | 7.1 | 4.4 | 33.8 | 8 | |
| Truck drivers | 100.0 | 7.4 | 11.5 | 22.3 | 12.9 | 2.8 | 12.4 | 30.8 | 8 | |
| Janitors and cleaners | 100.0 | 23.2 | 2.4 | 40.4 | 7.6 | 5.7 | 2.6 | 18.2 | 5 | |
| Sales workers, other commodities | 100.0 | 21.8 | 15.2 | 21.2 | 9.7 | 13.5 | 2.4 | 16.2 | 4 | |
| Cooks | 100.0 | 6.0 | 27.7 | 36.3 | 16.2 | 4.5 | -- | 9.4 | 3 | |
| Stock handlers and baggers | 100.0 | 19.6 | 1.3 | 25.5 | 21.9 | 7.5 | 2.4 | 21.7 | 6 | |
| Construction laborers | 100.0 | 9.5 | 15.0 | 14.4 | 12.8 | 14.7 | 1.6 | 32.1 | 9 | |
| Supervisors and proprietors, sales occupations | 100.0 | 8.6 | 4.8 | 19.9 | 16.5 | 21.3 | 0.7 | 28.1 | 11 | |
| Miscellaneous food preparation occupations | 100.0 | 11.2 | 29.5 | 33.3 | 4.8 | 16.8 | -- | 4.5 | 3 | |
| Driver-sales workers | 100.0 | 6.9 | 2.7 | 4.0 | 6.9 | 20.7 | 6.1 | 52.8 | 36 | |
| Registered nurses | 100.0 | 12.2 | 43.3 | 16.3 | 12.5 | 4.3 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 2 | |
| Cashiers | 100.0 | 3.3 | 35.1 | 18.6 | 10.9 | 16.8 | 6.3 | 8.9 | 4 | |
| Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators | 100.0 | 11.0 | 2.5 | 22.3 | 6.7 | 6.8 | 14.3 | 36.3 | 21 | |
| Maids and housemen | 100.0 | 17.8 | 7.5 | 22.4 | 4.3 | 6.4 | 10.8 | 30.8 | 8 | |
| Industrial machinery repairers | 100.0 | 7.8 | 2.3 | 18.6 | 11.3 | 20.9 | 3.8 | 35.2 | 17 | |
| Electricians | 100.0 | 18.9 | 1.7 | 8.7 | 13.5 | 11.1 | 11.4 | 34.8 | 18 | |
| Carpenters | 100.0 | 6.2 | -- | 18.4 | 29.4 | 14.3 | 2.6 | 29.1 | 10 | |
| Licensed practical nurses | 100.0 | 24.9 | 14.8 | 19.2 | 8.6 | 9.9 | 0.6 | 22.0 | 4 | |
| Kitchen workers, food preparation | 100.0 | 9.1 | 19.7 | 18.7 | 22.0 | 2.6 | -- | 27.9 | 7 | |
| Street and door-to-door sales workers | 100.0 | 9.3 | 2.4 | 41.8 | 37.2 | -- | -- | 9.3 | 5 | |
| Welders and cutters | 100.0 | 35.5 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 5.4 | 14.6 | 4.7 | 36.5 | 16 | |
| Machinists | 100.0 | 15.9 | 22.6 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 14.5 | 1.2 | 41.4 | 11 | |
| Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators | 100.0 | 4.8 | 33.3 | 26.1 | 12.5 | 2.5 | 4.5 | 16.3 | 5 | |
| Timber cutting and logging occupations | 100.0 | -- | 20.1 | 35.4 | 9.1 | -- | 11.0 | 24.5 | 3 | |
| Supervisors, production occupations | 100.0 | 4.4 | 65.7 | 5.5 | 2.5 | 12.8 | 1.0 | 8.1 | 2 | |
| Automobile mechanics | 100.0 | 3.2 | 22.2 | 14.5 | -- | 42.1 | -- | 18.0 | 13 | |
| Stock and inventory clerks | 100.0 | 17.8 | 9.7 | 13.9 | 21.1 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 19.5 | 7 | |
| Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics | 100.0 | 3.2 | 21.0 | 42.9 | 8.9 | 3.7 | 6.8 | 13.6 | 3 | |
| Managers, food serving and lodging establishments | 100.0 | -- | 41.4 | 1.6 | 57.0 | -- | -- | -- | 6 | |
| Heating, air conditioning, refrigeration mechanics | 100.0 | -- | -- | 98.8 | -- | 1.2 | -- | -- | 4 | |
| 1Days-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. | ||||||||||