IPW: Healthy People 2010 Injury Prevention Objectives

Healthy People 2010 - With Annotations

Chapter 20

Injury and Violence Prevention
Lead Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Note: Unless otherwise noted, data are from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Healthy People 2000 Review, 1998-99.

20-1. Reduce deaths from work-related injuries.

Target and baseline:

Objective Reduction in Deaths* From Work-Related Injuries	1998 Baseline	2010 Target
20-1a. All industry	4.5	3.2
20-1b. Mining	23.6	16.5
20-1c. Construction	14.6	10.2
20-1d. Transportation	11.8	8.3
20-1e. Agriculture, forestry, and fishing	24.1	16.9

*Deaths per 100,000 Workers Aged 16 Years and Older

Target setting method: 29 percent improvement.(Better than the best will be used when data are available.)

Data source: Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), DOL, BLS.

Workers Aged 16 Years and Older, 1998 Deaths From Work-Related Injuries (Rate per 100,000)	20-1a. All Industry	20-1b. Mining	20-1c. Construc- tion	20-1d. Trans- portation	20-1e. Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing
TOTAL	4.5	23.6	14.6	11.8	24.1
Race and ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Asian or Pacific Islander	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Asian	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Black or African American	3.9	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
White	4.5	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
Hispanic or Latino	5.2	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
Not Hispanic or Latino	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
Gender
Female	0.8	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
Male	7.7	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
Family income level
Poor	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Near poor	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Middle/high income	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Disability status
Persons with disabilities	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Persons without disabilities	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC

DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.

An average of 17 workers die from work-related injuries each day. These deaths are preventable. Public health efforts and resources can be targeted more effectively toward work-related injury prevention efforts, especially in those industries where the risk is greatest.

The NORA traumatic injury team has identified a number of research needs and priorities to address this issue. Specifically, the reduction of work-related injury deaths will require focused efforts to more fully identify and prioritize problems (injury surveillance), quantify and prioritize risk factors (analytic injury research), identify existing or develop new strategies to prevent occupational injuries (prevention and control), implement the most effective injury control measures (communication, dissemination, and technology transfer), and monitor the results of intervention efforts (evaluation). This approach will require the cooperation of many groups and agencies to provide the needed educational and outreach efforts, engineering controls, and enforcement of workplace safety regulations.

Healthy People 2010 - With Annotations

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