Workplace deaths falling dramatically
According to the Centers for Disease Control fewer and fewer Americans are perishing on the job due to accidents. They attribute this to a number of factors. There has been an expansion of service industries that are
relatively safe. Tougher worker-safety standards imposed under laws such as the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act. A reduction in or export of high-risk mining, metals and manufacturing jobs. An increase in the number
of working women whose accident rate is about a tenth that of men. A decline in the number of small farms where worker fatalities have always been high. Today's workplaces are roughly 40,000 lives a year safer than they were in the 1930s, according to the CDC.
