Minnesota OSHA Compliance -- Serious-injury investigations
Serious-injury incidents investigated by Minnesota OSHA: 2008 through 2012
| Occupational serious-injury type | 2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amputation |
4 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 29 |
Asphyxiation/chemical exposure |
6 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 13 |
Burn |
1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
Crushed by |
8 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 45 |
Electrical shock |
5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
Environmental stress |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Explosion |
4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 16 |
Fall |
8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 42 |
Struck by |
7 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 25 |
Total |
43 | 29 | 30 | 39 | 51 | 195 |
Percent in construction industry |
14/43 33% |
5/29 17% |
7/30 23% |
14/39 36% |
25/51 |
62/192 32% |
Percent in general industry |
29/43 67% |
24/29 83% |
23/30 77% |
25/39 64% |
29/51 57% |
130/192 68% |
Updated February 2013
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