WASHINGTON–The number of fatal injuries occurring at work in 2005 fell slightly from the prior year, according to a new report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The numbers reported in the "2005 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries" represent the third-lowest level since the bureau started tracking workplace fatalities, according to Edwin G. Foulke Jr., the assistant secretary of labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
A drop in the death rate is consistent with a continuing decline in the count of job injuries by the workers' compensation insurance sector. Earlier this year the National Council on Compensation Insurance reported that the frequency rate for injuries had declined 30 percent over the past decade.
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