Economic Report: Hispanic Deaths On The Job Up By Two Percent
Submitted by Doug Cunningham on August 17, 2006 - 3:53pm
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By Jesse Russell
While workplace fatalities overall dropped by one-percent in 2005 - that wasn’t the case for Hispanic workers. Numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released this week showed that fatal work injuries of Hispanics jumped by two percent in 2005 - setting a new high. Fatalities amongst farm workers were also up sharply, increasing by 23 percent in 2005 over 2004.
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