More Texas workers died on the job

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6189726.html

By L.M. SIXEL Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
Dec. 31, 2008, 10:41PM

The 527 Texans who died on the job in 2007 marked an increase from 489 the previous year and was the highest total since 2001, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report released Wednesday.

Highway crashes were the most frequent cause of death in 2007, both nationally and in Texas, where they represented 25 percent of all on-the-job fatalities.

The other most common ways Texas workers died on the job in 2007 included falls, homicides and getting struck by objects.

The homicide rate among protective service workers — including law officers and security guards — more than tripled in 2007 to 19, the highest level since the agency began keeping track in 1992, said Cheryl Abbot, regional economist for the agency in Dallas.

[w8liftinglady]

1. why does that not surprise me?Texas is the most labor-unfriendly place I know

People here are terrified to even mention the word "Union"..as if it would be grounds for immediate termination.In some places,it would.

[izquierdista]

2. Not a big deal....

Now if 527 people who lived in gated communities had their lives shortened in the manner of these common laborers, then the powers that be would take notice!