This report describes U.S. traumatic occupational fatalities for the 6-year period from 1980 through 1985, and provides information on these deaths at the national and state levels, as well as by occupation and industry. Characteristics of fatally injured workers are also described. The Division of Safety Research (DSR) of NIOSH has constructed a database as part of its National Traumatic Occupational Fatality (NTOF)project. This database contains information from death certificates for work-related deaths recorded in the U.S. since the beginning of 1980. NIOSH plans to continue collecting information on work-related deaths and assembling such deaths in the NTOF database at least until 1990.
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