| Table 3. Number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work1 by selected worker occupations and industry division, 2002 | ||||||||||
| West Virginia--private industry | ||||||||||
| Occupation | 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 |
| Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants | 1,492 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1,492 |
| Laborers, nonconstruction | 1,022 | -- | 228 | -- | 297 | 51 | 230 | 143 | 31 | 42 |
| Truck drivers | 970 | -- | 37 | -- | 114 | 420 | 210 | 103 | -- | 82 |
| Miscellaneous food preparation occupations | 458 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 251 | -- | 207 |
| Janitors and cleaners | 352 | -- | -- | -- | 49 | -- | -- | -- | 58 | 196 |
| Cashiers | 351 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 319 | -- | 32 |
| Stock handlers and baggers | 342 | -- | 8 | -- | 8 | -- | -- | 326 | -- | -- |
| Sales workers, other commodities | 332 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 316 | -- | -- |
| Supervisors and proprietors, sales occupations | 314 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 79 | 235 | -- | -- |
| Cooks | 302 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 214 | -- | 87 |
| Construction laborers | 268 | -- | -- | 267 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Maids and housemen | 260 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 256 |
| Carpenters | 233 | -- | 7 | 219 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Registered nurses | 189 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 189 |
| Industrial machinery repairers | 171 | -- | 121 | -- | 45 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Electricians | 163 | -- | 105 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 15 |
| Driver-sales workers | 163 | -- | -- | -- | 12 | -- | 72 | -- | -- | 19 |
| Welders and cutters | 163 | -- | 7 | -- | 110 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 29 |
| Miscellaneous material moving equipment operat | 159 | -- | 153 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Timber cutting and logging occupations | 152 | -- | -- | -- | 152 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Licensed practical nurses | 148 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 148 |
| Welfare service aides | 145 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 145 |
| Heating, air conditioning, refrigeration mechanics | 131 | -- | -- | 131 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Kitchen workers, food preparation | 118 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 113 | -- | -- |
| Grinding, abrading, polishing machine operators | 118 | -- | 5 | -- | 112 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators | 116 | -- | 48 | -- | 34 | 12 | 17 | -- | -- | -- |
| Machinists | 113 | -- | -- | -- | 91 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 18 |
| Waiters and waitresses | 108 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 61 | -- | 46 |
| Guards and police, exc. public service | 104 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 91 |
| Punching and stamping press machine operators | 102 | -- | -- | -- | 102 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Packaging and filling machine operators | 99 | -- | -- | -- | 99 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 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. | ||||||||||