Wyoming Occupational Fatalities Rise in 2010
Wyoming occupational fatalities rose by 15, from 19 in 2009 to 34 in 2010, a 78.9% increase (see Figure). While 2009 fatalities were much lower than the average of 35 people who die on the job in Wyoming in a given year, 2010 was more consistent with other years. The rise in deaths from 2009 to 2010 was associated with a 63.6% increase in transportation accidents. Natural Resources & Mining had the most fatalities with ten, or 29.4% of all deaths (see Table 1). The remainder were spread out across other industries including Trade, Transportation, & Utilities (6), Construction (5), and Other Services except Public Administration (4). More than half of all fatalities were the result of transportation accidents (52.9%), a result similar to other years.
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Transportation accidents are the most common cause of work-related death. As seen in Table 2, from 2003 to 2010, a total of 296 people died while on the job. Of the total, 61.5% (182) resulted from transportation accidents. Nearly one-third of all deaths occurred in Natural Resources & Mining (31.4%), followed by Trade, Transportation, & Utilities (28.4%).
Variations in fatalities from year to year are, to some extent, the result of the random nature of work-related accidents. The only events that show a consistent pattern in Wyoming are transportation events, highway accidents in particular. For more information go to http://doe.state.wy.us/lmi/CFOI/toc.htm.
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