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David B. Richardson, PhD, Dana Loomis, PhD, James Bena, MS and A. John Bailer, PhD

David B. Richardson and Dana Loomis are with the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. At the time of the study, James Bena was with the Risk Evaluation Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio. A. John Bailer is with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and the Risk Evaluation Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to David Richard-son, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, CB No. 8050, Bank of America Plaza, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599–8050 (e-mail: david_richardson{at}unc.edu).

Objectives. We investigated fatal occupational injury rates in the United States by race and Hispanic ethnicity during the period 1990–1996.

Methods. Fatalities were identified by means of the national traumatic occupational fatalities surveillance system. Fatal occupational injury rates were calculated by race/ethnicity and region using US-census–based workforce estimates.

Results. Non-Hispanic Black men in the South had the highest fatal occupational injury rate (8.5 per 100000 worker-years), followed by Hispanic men in the South (7.9 per 100000 worker-years). Fatal injury rates for Hispanic men increased over the study period, exceeding rates for non-Hispanic Black men in the latter years of observation.

Conclusions. These data suggest a change in the demographics of fatal occupational injuries in the United States. Hispanic men in the South appear to be emerging as the group with the nation’s highest unintentional fatal occupational injury rate.

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