| Table 10. Percent distribution of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work1 by industry division and number of days away from work, 1998 | |||||||||||
| West Virginia--private industry | |||||||||||
| Characteristic | Total cases | Percent of cases involving | Median days away from work | ||||||||
| 1 day | 2 days | 3 to 5 days | 6 to 10 days | 11 to 20 days | 21 to 30 days | 31 days or more | |||||
| Private industry 2 [16,678 cases] | 100.0 | 12.8 | 10.8 | 19.7 | 12.4 | 9.4 | 5.6 | 29.3 | 7 | ||
| Goods producing: | |||||||||||
| Agriculture, forestry, and fishing 2 | 100.0 | 27.5 | 19.5 | 9.1 | 14.7 | 7.9 | 2.3 | 19.1 | 4 | ||
| Mining 3 | 100.0 | 3.7 | 5.6 | 11.8 | 7.5 | 8.8 | 4.5 | 58.1 | 47 | ||
| Construction | 100.0 | 14.4 | 8.2 | 18.9 | 9.9 | 7.4 | 13.5 | 27.8 | 7 | ||
| Manufacturing | 100.0 | 16.1 | 8.4 | 18.0 | 12.5 | 8.1 | 6.3 | 30.6 | 8 | ||
| Durable goods | 100.0 | 17.5 | 8.1 | 17.7 | 13.1 | 7.7 | 6.9 | 29.1 | 8 | ||
| Nondurable goods | 100.0 | 12.2 | 9.2 | 18.9 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 4.9 | 34.8 | 10 | ||
| Service producing: | |||||||||||
| Transportation and public utilities 3 | 100.0 | 9.5 | 11.7 | 23.5 | 8.8 | 10.9 | 7.6 | 28.1 | 8 | ||
| Wholesale trade | 100.0 | 10.5 | 12.8 | 18.3 | 12.2 | 9.9 | 5.0 | 31.4 | 9 | ||
| Retail trade | 100.0 | 14.8 | 14.1 | 22.8 | 12.1 | 11.5 | 6.8 | 17.9 | 5 | ||
| Finance, insurance, and real estate | 100.0 | 27.1 | 8.3 | 14.1 | 12.4 | 11.2 | 3.9 | 22.9 | 6 | ||
| Services | 100.0 | 11.3 | 12.5 | 21.7 | 16.6 | 9.2 | 1.1 | 27.5 | 6 | ||
| 1 Days-away-from-work cases include those which result in days away from work with or without | NOTE: Dashes indicate data that are not available. Because of rounding and data exclusion of | ||||||||||
| restricted work activity. | nonclassifiable responses, data may not sum to the totals. | ||||||||||
| 2 Excludes farms with fewer than 11 employees. | |||||||||||
| 3 Data conforming to OSHA definitions for mining operators in coal, metal, and nonmetal mining and | SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, Survey of Occupational Injuries | ||||||||||
| for employers in railroad transportation are provided to BLS by the Mine Safety and Health | and Illnesses in cooperation with participating State agencies. | ||||||||||
| Administration, U.S. Department of Labor; and the Federal Railroad Administration, U.S. Department of | |||||||||||
| Transportation. Independent mining contractors are excluded from the coal, metal, and nonmetal | |||||||||||
| industries. | |||||||||||