| 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, 2006 | |||||||||||
| 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 [12,130 cases] | 100.0 | 13.4 | 12.9 | 22.6 | 14.4 | 8.4 | 5.4 | 22.8 | 6 | ||
| Goods producing | 100.0 | 12.7 | 11.2 | 21.1 | 12.1 | 8.4 | 6.7 | 27.8 | 7 | ||
| Natural resources and mining 2,3 | 100.0 | 8.7 | 5.8 | 16.7 | 9.4 | 10.1 | 6.5 | 42.0 | 19 | ||
| Construction | 100.0 | 8.9 | 10.5 | 28.2 | 18.5 | 5.6 | 9.7 | 18.5 | 6 | ||
| Manufacturing | 100.0 | 17.8 | 14.9 | 19.8 | 9.9 | 8.9 | 5.0 | 23.3 | 5 | ||
| Service providing | 100.0 | 13.8 | 14.0 | 23.6 | 15.9 | 8.4 | 4.5 | 19.8 | 5 | ||
| Trade, transportation, and utilities 4 | 100.0 | 13.1 | 14.6 | 23.2 | 12.0 | 7.5 | 4.9 | 24.7 | 5 | ||
| Information | 100.0 | 17.6 | 17.6 | 35.3 | 11.8 | -- | -- | 11.8 | 3 | ||
| Financial activities | 100.0 | -- | -- | 33.3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 5 | ||
| Professional and business services | 100.0 | 19.6 | 8.7 | 10.9 | 13.0 | 6.5 | -- | 39.1 | 7 | ||
| Education and health services | 100.0 | 16.2 | 12.7 | 23.5 | 16.5 | 9.2 | 5.0 | 16.9 | 5 | ||
| Leisure and hospitality | 100.0 | 11.3 | 13.9 | 26.1 | 22.6 | 11.3 | 2.6 | 12.2 | 5 | ||
| Other services, except public administration | 100.0 | -- | 28.2 | 28.2 | 25.6 | 5.1 | -- | 10.3 | 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. | ||||||||||