| Table 12. Percent distribution of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work 1 by major industry sector and number of days away from work, 2005 | ||||||||||
| West Virginia--private industry | ||||||||||
| Industry sector | Percent of cases involving | Median days away from work |
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| Total cases |
1 day | 2 days | 3
to 5 days |
6
to 10 days |
11
to 20 days |
21
to 30 days |
31
days or more |
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| Private industry 2, 3, 4 [12,930 cases] | 100.0 | 18.6 | 13.9 | 21.4 | 10.7 | 8.2 | 4.9 | 22.3 | 5 | |
| Goods producing | 100.0 | 17.8 | 11.2 | 19.4 | 10.8 | 8.9 | 4.4 | 27.4 | 6 | |
| Natural resources and mining 2,3 | 100.0 | 5.8 | 9.9 | 15.7 | 9.9 | 7.4 | 5.8 | 45.5 | 22 | |
| Construction | 100.0 | 21.4 | 8.9 | 23.2 | 14.3 | 8.0 | -- | 23.2 | 5 | |
| Manufacturing | 100.0 | 23.2 | 13.4 | 20.1 | 9.3 | 9.8 | 5.7 | 18.6 | 4 | |
| Service providing | 100.0 | 18.9 | 15.2 | 22.4 | 10.6 | 7.9 | 5.1 | 19.7 | 4 | |
| Trade, transportation, and utilities 4 | 100.0 | 13.3 | 12.3 | 20.8 | 11.7 | 10.1 | 7.1 | 24.7 | 6 | |
| Information | 100.0 | 25.0 | 16.7 | 16.7 | -- | 16.7 | -- | 25.0 | 5 | |
| Financial activities | 100.0 | 16.7 | 25.0 | 16.7 | -- | -- | -- | 25.0 | 3 | |
| Professional and business services | 100.0 | 10.9 | 20.9 | 24.5 | 4.5 | 9.1 | 6.4 | 24.5 | 5 | |
| Education and health services | 100.0 | 17.3 | 17.7 | 23.9 | 11.1 | 7.4 | 3.7 | 18.9 | 4 | |
| Leisure and hospitality | 100.0 | 41.8 | 11.6 | 19.9 | 12.3 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 7.5 | 2 | |
| Other services, except public administration | 100.0 | 12.1 | 18.2 | 36.4 | 12.1 | 9.1 | -- | 12.1 | 3 | |
| 1 Days-away-from-work cases include those that result in days away from work with or without | and Health Administration made to its recordkeeping requirements effective January 1, 2002: therefore | |||||||||
| job transfer or restriction. | estimates for these industries are not comparable to estimates in other industries. | |||||||||
| 2 Excludes farms with fewer than 11 employees. | 4 Data for employers in rail transportation are provided to BLS by the Federal Railroad | |||||||||
| 3 Data for mining (Sector 21 in the North American Industry Classification System -- United States, 2002) | Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. | |||||||||
| include establishments not governed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) rules | NOTE: Dashes indicate data that are not available. Because of rounding and data exclusion | |||||||||
| and reporting, such as those in oil and gas extraction and related support activities. Data for mining | of nonclassifiable responses, data may not sum to the totals. | |||||||||
| operators in coal, metal, and nonmetal mining are provided to BLS by the Mine Safety and Health | ||||||||||
| Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. Independent mining contractors are excluded from the | SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, Survey of Occupational | |||||||||
| coal, metal, and nonmetal mining industries. These data do not reflect the changes the Occupational Safety | Injuries and Illnesses in cooperation with participating State agencies. | |||||||||