Hi John,
The newest data we released this morning is alarming: 344 workers died on the job in America each day in 2022 due to hazardous working conditions.
Read the 2024 Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect report.
Black and Latino workers are suffering the worst from workplaces that have failed to protect them. The numbers are shocking: Black workers’ job fatality rate is the highest it has been in nearly 15 years. Latino workers have the greatest risk of dying on the job, with a fatality rate that is 24% higher than the national average. Sixty percent of Latino workers killed on the job are immigrants.
Injuries on the job also increased. Employers self-reported nearly 3.5 million work-related injuries and illnesses, an increase from the previous year. But these injury numbers are vastly underreported. The true toll of work-related injuries and illnesses is 5.6 million to 8.4 million each year in private industry.
We need to do more to keep workers safe—but extremist politicians and their powerful corporate friends have politicized commonsense safety issues and starved the government agencies trying to enforce workers’ rights and protections.
