Top ten industries reporting the highest incidence rates of total nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases in 2001:

  • Metal sanitary ware - 24.4
  • Motor vehicles and car bodies - 21.0
  • Meat packing plants - 20.0
  • Prefabricated wood buildings - 19.1
  • Gray and ductile iron foundries - 18.9
  • Secondary nonferrous metals - 18.4
  • Truck and bus bodies - 17.9
  • Travel trailers and campers - 17.4
  • Ship building and repairing - 17.2
  • Aluminum die-castings - 16.1

Case rate based on 100 equivalent full-time workers (working 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year).

Industries with 100,000 or more injuries and illnesses - 2001

  • Eating and drinking places - 289.1
  • Hospitals -286.0
  • Nursing and personal care facilities - 199.8
  • Grocery stores - 180.8
  • Department stores - 148.1
  • Motor vehicles and equipment - 145.4
  • Trucking and courier services, except air - 137.0
  • Air transportation, scheduled - 123.0