| Table 3. Number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work1 by selected worker occupations and industry division, 2001 | |||||||||||
| West Virginia--private industry | |||||||||||
| Goods producing | Service producing | ||||||||||
| Occupation | 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 | |
| Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants | 1,934 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1,934 | |
| Laborers, nonconstruction | 1,456 | -- | 179 | -- | 426 | 188 | 281 | 124 | 34 | 224 | |
| Truck drivers | 1,040 | -- | 35 | -- | 66 | 430 | 312 | 97 | -- | 71 | |
| Janitors and cleaners | 391 | -- | -- | -- | 72 | -- | -- | 60 | 31 | 228 | |
| Sales workers, other commodities | 388 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 350 | -- | -- | |
| Cooks | 386 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 281 | -- | 105 | |
| Stock handlers and baggers | 352 | -- | -- | -- | 10 | -- | -- | 318 | -- | -- | |
| Construction laborers | 348 | -- | -- | 341 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Supervisors and proprietors, sales occupations | 317 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 272 | -- | -- | |
| Miscellaneous food preparation occupations | 312 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 209 | -- | 101 | |
| Driver-sales workers | 249 | -- | -- | -- | 35 | -- | 54 | 156 | -- | -- | |
| Registered nurses | 246 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 246 | |
| Cashiers | 241 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 205 | -- | 36 | |
| Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators | 240 | -- | 134 | -- | 106 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Maids and housemen | 226 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 207 | |
| Industrial machinery repairers | 213 | -- | 88 | -- | 119 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Electricians | 181 | -- | 82 | 49 | 46 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Carpenters | 179 | -- | 14 | 153 | 11 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Licensed practical nurses | 174 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 174 | |
| Kitchen workers, food preparation | 168 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 167 | -- | -- | |
| Street and door-to-door sales workers | 160 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 160 | |
| Welders and cutters | 151 | -- | 7 | 18 | 86 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 17 | |
| Machinists | 149 | -- | -- | -- | 123 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators | 128 | -- | 32 | -- | 41 | -- | 44 | -- | -- | -- | |
| Timber cutting and logging occupations | 122 | -- | -- | -- | 122 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Supervisors, production occupations | 114 | -- | 6 | -- | 27 | 70 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Automobile mechanics | 111 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 90 | -- | -- | |
| Stock and inventory clerks | 102 | -- | -- | -- | 52 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics | 98 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 62 | 20 | -- | -- | -- | |
| Managers, food serving and lodging establishments | 93 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 91 | -- | -- | |
| Heating, air conditioning, refrigeration mechanics | 87 | -- | -- | 85 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 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 | 'SOURCE:Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, Survey of Occupational Injuries | ||||||||||
| (Division B in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1987 edition) include establishments not | and Illnesses in cooperation with participating State agencies. | ||||||||||
| governed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) rules and reporting, such as those in | |||||||||||