Table A-7.  Fatal occupational injuries by worker characteristics and event or exposure, Wyoming, 2002
   
Worker characteristics Total fatalities (number) Event or exposure1
(percent)
Transpor- tation incidents2 Assaults and violent acts3 Contact with objects and equipment Falls Exposure to harmful sub- stances or environ- ments Fires and explosions
           
Total 33 54.5 -- 18.2 12.1 12.1 --
           
Employee Status            
           
Wage and Salary Workers4 28 53.6 -- 17.9 14.3 10.7 --
Self-employed5 5 60.0 -- -- -- -- --
           
Sex            
           
Men 31 51.6 -- 19.4 12.9 12.9 --
Women -- -- -- -- -- -- --
           
Age            
           
    Under 16 years -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    16 to 17 years -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    18 to 19 years -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    20 to 24 years -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    25 to 34 years 7 71.4 -- -- -- -- --
    35 to 44 years 12 50.0 -- 25.0 -- -- --
    45 to 54 years 6 50.0 -- -- -- -- --
    55 to 64 years 6 50.0 -- -- -- -- --
    65 years and over -- -- -- -- -- -- --
           
Race or Ethnic Origin6            
           
White -- -- -- -- -- -- --
White, non-Hispanic 23 52.2 -- 26.1 -- -- --
Black -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Black, non-Hispanic -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Hispanic or Latino 8 50.0 -- -- -- -- --
American Indian or Alaska Native -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Asian or Pacific Islander -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    Asian -- -- -- -- -- -- --
    Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander -- -- -- -- -- -- --
             
   
      1 Based on the 1992 BLS Occupational Injury and Illness include Hispanic workers. For years 2000 and later,
Classification Manual. persons identified as Hispanic may be of any race.  The 
    2 Includes highway, nonhighway, air, water, and rail fatalities. race categories shown exclude Hispanic workers.
     3 Includes violence by persons, self-inflicted injury, and      NOTE: Totals for major categories may include 
assaults by animals. subcategories not shown separately.  Percentages 
     4 May include volunteers and other workers receiving may not add to totals because of rounding.
compensation.    Dashes indicate no data reported or data that do not meet
     5 Includes paid and unpaid family workers, and may include publication criteria.
owners of incorporated businesses, or members of     All Data are revised and final.
partnerships.      SOURCE:  U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor 
     6 For years prior to 2000, the race categories shown Statistics, in cooperation with State and Federal agencies,
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries
CFOI Labor Market Information