| Top 10 Private Industries By Number Of Nonfatal Occupational Injuries And Illnesses, 2016 (1) |
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| Rank |
Industry |
Number (000) |
Percent of total private industry |
| 1 |
General medical and surgical hospitals |
213.5 |
7.3% |
| 2 |
Restaurants and other eating places |
195.8 |
6.7 |
| 3 |
Nursing and residential care facilities |
164.3 |
5.7 |
| 4 |
Specialty trade contractors |
138.0 |
4.7 |
| 5 |
Ambulatory health care services |
125.2 |
4.3 |
| 6 |
General merchandise stores |
96.6 |
3.3 |
| 7 |
Grocery stores |
83.6 |
2.9 |
| 8 |
Food manufacturing |
72.6 |
2.5 |
| 9 |
Transportation equipment manufacturing |
72.1 |
2.5 |
| 10 |
Natural resources and mining |
68.4 |
2.4 |
| |
Total, top 10 |
1,230.1 |
42.3% |
| |
Total, private industry |
2,905.9 |
100.0% |
(1) Excludes farms with fewer than 11 employees.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
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