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Fact Sheet | Hispanic Women | January 2012

Workplace Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities to Women of Hispanic or Latino Ethnicity [30 January 2012]

http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/osar0015.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/osar0015.pdf

[full-text, 3 pages]

[excerpt]

From 2005 through 2009, a total of 216 Hispanic or Latino1 women were fatally injured on the job--an average of 43 fatal injuries per year. Over the same period, Hispanic or Latino women accounted for 11 percent of all fatal occupational injuries incurred by women, roughly the same as Hispanic women’s share of all women’s employment. Fatal work injuries to Hispanic or Latino men have declined 29 percent since 2006, while fatal work injuries among Hispanic or Latino women have remained at about the same level.

Of the 216 fatal work injuries involving Hispanic or Latino women from 2005 to 2009, 116 (or 54 percent) involved women who were born in a country other than the United States. From 2005 to 2009, the states with the greatest numbers of fatal injuries involving Hispanic or Latino women were California (23 percent of fatal injuries to Hispanic or Latino women), Texas (15 percent), and Florida (8 percent).

In 2009, Hispanic or Latino women incurred 37,310 nonfatal injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work, accounting for 30 percent of injuries to Hispanic or Latino2 workers and 4 percent of all private industry injuries. Ten percent of all women workers who incurred occupational injuries and illnesses were Hispanic or Latino. Injuries to Hispanic or Latino women occurred primarily in the health and social assistance (28 percent) and leisure and hospitality industries (20 percent) in 2009.

Fatal injury data reported are for all ownerships (private sector, state, local, and federal government), whereas nonfatal injury and illness data are for private industry only, so data are not directly comparable.

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