Percentage distribution and crude rate of fatally injured workers by occupation group
| Occupation division | Australia* (n = 521) | New Zealand* (n = 210) | United States* (n = 4322) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rate† | (95% CI)‡ | Total %§ | Rate | (95% CI) | Total % | Rate | (95% CI) | Total % | |
| *Data for Australia and the United States were from 1989–92; data for NZ were from 1985–98. | |||||||||
| †Deaths per 100 000 person years. | |||||||||
| ‡95% confidence interval. | |||||||||
| §Motor vehicle deaths as a percentage of all deaths for the occupation. | |||||||||
| Managers, professionals, and technicians | 0.90 | (0.71–1.13) | 31.2 | 0.46 | (0.32–0.65) | 22.0 | 0.35 | (0.32–0.38) | 18.6 |
| Clerical | 0.21 | (0.10–0.37) | 57.4 | 0.17 | (0.06–0.40) | 34.2 | 0.18 | (0.15–0.21) | 33.3 |
| Sales and service Workers | 0.63 | (0.39–0.85) | 58.0 | 0.47 | (0.25–0.80) | 25.7 | 0.48 | (0.44–0.52) | 19.8 |
| Farming, forestry, and fishing workers | 1.90 | (1.19–2.55) | 8.1 | 0.83 | (0.48–1.33) | 4.3 | 2.18 | (1.93–2.43) | 11.6 |
| Trades workers, operators, and labourers | 3.35 | (3.04–3.73) | 37.5 | 2.17 | (1.81–2.53) | 22.6 | 2.22 | (2.14–2.30) | 25.6 |
| Unknown | 63.2 | 9.0 | 24.7 | ||||||
| Total | 1.69 | (1.54–1.83) | 30.8 | 0.99 | (0.85–1.12) | 16.2 | 0.92 | (0.89–0.94) | 22.1 |