| Table 1.Number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work1 by selected worker characteristics and industry division, 2002 | ||||||||||
| West Virginia--private industry | ||||||||||
| Characteristic | Private industry 2 | Goods producing | Service producing | |||||||
| 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 | 14,571 | -- | 1,350 | 920 | 2,672 | 1,191 | 1,003 | 2,907 | 210 | 4,288 |
| Sex: | ||||||||||
| Men | 9,428 | -- | 1,339 | 918 | 2,241 | 991 | 937 | 1,526 | 106 | 1,348 |
| Women | 5,097 | 11 | 10 | -- | 431 | 154 | 66 | 1,381 | 103 | 2,941 |
| Age: | ||||||||||
| 14 to 15 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 16 to 19 | 338 | -- | 14 | -- | 48 | -- | -- | 147 | -- | 101 |
| 20 to 24 | 1,710 | -- | 85 | -- | 261 | 140 | 102 | 501 | 30 | 557 |
| 25 to 34 | 4,016 | -- | 252 | 402 | 706 | 313 | 248 | 950 | 39 | 1,086 |
| 35 to 44 | 3,636 | -- | 276 | 97 | 725 | 274 | 355 | 616 | 80 | 1,206 |
| 45 to 54 | 3,474 | -- | 545 | 305 | 610 | 331 | 210 | 480 | 49 | 946 |
| 55 to 64 | 1,224 | -- | 146 | 88 | 279 | 120 | 57 | 198 | 9 | 329 |
| 65 and over | 145 | -- | -- | -- | 44 | 13 | -- | -- | -- | 64 |
| Occupation: | ||||||||||
| Managerial and professional specialty | 659 | -- | 18 | -- | 30 | -- | -- | 102 | 13 | 448 |
| Technical, sales, and administrative support | 2,360 | -- | 5 | -- | 115 | 302 | 193 | 1,110 | 83 | 547 |
| Service | 3,676 | -- | -- | -- | 50 | -- | -- | 755 | 75 | 2,772 |
| Farming, forestry, and fishing | 213 | -- | -- | -- | 154 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 28 |
| Precision production, craft, and repair | 2,106 | -- | 692 | 568 | 313 | 78 | 142 | 145 | -- | 166 |
| Operators, fabricators, and laborers | 5,545 | -- | 622 | 344 | 2,010 | 792 | 621 | 796 | 32 | 328 |
| Length of service with employer: | ||||||||||
| Less than 3 months | 1,880 | 10 | 108 | 194 | 308 | 91 | 127 | 481 | 43 | 520 |
| 3 to 11 months | 3,063 | -- | 292 | 151 | 488 | 179 | 88 | 732 | 37 | 1,093 |
| 1 to 5 years | 4,853 | 11 | 484 | 441 | 629 | 430 | 358 | 835 | 90 | 1,576 |
| More than 5 years | 4,673 | 8 | 410 | 135 | 1,247 | 444 | 430 | 859 | 40 | 1,100 |
| Not reported | 102 | -- | 56 | -- | -- | 46 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Race or ethnic origin: | ||||||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 10,262 | -- | 201 | 681 | 2,185 | 917 | 833 | 1,886 | 157 | 3,381 |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 215 | -- | -- | -- | 32 | 29 | -- | -- | -- | 143 |
| Hispanic | 13 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| American Indian or Alaskan Native | 31 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Multi-race | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Not reported | 4,044 | 12 | 1,148 | 236 | 446 | 245 | 169 | 984 | 49 | 755 |
| 1Days-away-from-work cases include those which result in days away from work with or without | 4Data for employers in railroad transportation are provided to BLS by the Federal Railroad | |||||||||
| job transfer or restriction. | Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.These data do not reflect the changes OSHA made | |||||||||
| 2Excludes farms with fewer than 11 employees. | to its recordkeeping requirements effective January 1, 2002; therefore estimates for these industries are | |||||||||
| 3Data for Mining (Division B in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1987 edition) include | not comparable with estimates for other industries. | |||||||||
| establishments not governed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) rules and reporting, | ||||||||||
| such as those in Oil and Gas Extraction.Data for mining operators in coal, metal, and nonmetal mining | NOTE:Dashes indicate data that are not available.Because of rounding and data exclusion of | |||||||||
| are provided to BLS by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. | nonclassifiable responses, data may not sum to the totals. | |||||||||
| Independent mining contractors are excluded from the coal, metal, and nonmetal mining industries. | ||||||||||
| These data do not reflect the changes OSHA made to its recordkeeping requirements effective | SOURCE:Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, Survey of Occupational Injuries | |||||||||
| January 1, 2002; therefore estimates for these industries are not comparable with estimates for other | and Illnesses in cooperation with participating State agencies. | |||||||||
| industries. | ||||||||||