Last night, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released its 2022 data on occupational fatalities, showing an overall increase of 5.7% and that construction and transportation had the highest fatality rates across industries.
OSHA notes with concern that in 2022 the fatality rate among Black workers rose 12.4% and the rate for Hispanic workers rose 10.4%. OSHA also finds that “work-related overdoses and suicides continue to be causes of great concern.”