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Released: August 20, 2010
Fatalies on the job fell in 2009
Source: Steve Greenhouse, New York Times (Free Registration)
The total number of fatal workplace injuries fell by 17 percent last year, to 4,340, down from 5,214 in 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Thursday.
The bureau said that the 2009 total was the smallest since its census of fatal occupational injuries began in 1992 and that the drop far outstripped the 6 percent decline in total hours worked.
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