Occupational Safety and Health

Employment Change and Impacts on Workplace Fatalities in Wyoming

PDF August 2010.
This research spans the 18-year period from 1992 to 2009. It shows that employment changes in Wyoming are directly related to changes in the number of workplace fatalities; for example, as total employment increases or decreases, so does the number of workplace fatalities.

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Post-Injury Wage Loss:
A Quasi-Experimental Design



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Prepared for The NIOSH Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center. Published May 2009.

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Workers' Compensation Articles

• Historical Workers Compensation Claims Data (Excel Spreadsheet)


• Workers Compensation Claims -- 2011Q3 (Wyoming Labor Force Trends, January 2012)


• Workers Compensation Claims -- 2011Q2 (Wyoming Labor Force Trends, October 2011)


• Workers Compensation Claims -- 2011Q1 (Wyoming Labor Force Trends, July 2011)


• Workers Compensation Claims -- 2010Q4 (Wyoming Labor Force Trends, April 2011)


• Calculation of Workers' Compensation Claims: A Methodological Note (Wyoming Labor Force Trends, January 2011)


• Workplace Safety: Analysis Using Workers' Compensation Data in Wyoming (Wyoming Labor Force Trends, November 2010)
  
  

Workers' Compensation Rates

• Workers Compensation Claims Rates by Industry, 2004 (Excluding Federal Government) (pdf)


• Workers Compensation Claims Rates per 100 Workers (Occupational Employment Statistics) by Industry Excluding Federal Government, 2004 (pdf)


• Distribution of Employment by 2-Digit Standard Occupation Codes, 2004 (OES Basis) (pdf)

• Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI)
  This unit is responsible for collecting data and generating fatal occupational injury and illness statistics for Wyoming. Fatal work-related injury and illness statistics are produced in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). For data on nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses, see Occupational Safety and Health.

• Occupational Safety and Health. This unit is responsible for collecting data and generating nonfatal occupational injury and illness statistical data. Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses The OSH unit in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) conducts the annual survey. This survey gathers information which produces summary estimates of the number and frequency (incidence rates--definitions can be found in the BLS Glossary) as well as case characteristics of nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses. For data on fatal occupational injuries and illnesses, see the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI)

Articles written about
the OSH survey: 

• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2009 and 2010
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2008
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2007
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2006
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2005: Case and Demographic Data
• How Safe Are Wyoming Industries? Comparisons to National Averages
• Employment Growth, But With Caution (October 2005 Trends article)
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2003
• The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for 2002
• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: How Safe are Wyoming's Workplaces?

Other Resources

• Annual Survey and Case and Demographic Estimates-State/National Data (BLS website)