United States:
Workplace Fatalities Decreasing
04 April 2012
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that workplace deaths in
Louisiana dropped nearly 26 percent in 2010. There were 104
workplace fatalities, a drop of 36 deaths from 2009. Of the 104
deaths, eleven were caused by the Deepwater Horizon explosion,
which resulted in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Highway fatalities
resulted in the most job-related deaths.
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March 2012 issue of the Louisiana eAuthority.
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