Fatal occupational injuries among Asian workers

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 128, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 49-55

  Sincavage, Jessica R ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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EID: 29144434081     PISSN: 00981818     EISSN: 00981818     Source Type: Journal    
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1. See We the People: Asians in the United States, Census 2000 Special Reports (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000) on the Internet at http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/censr-17.pdf.
2. See www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/1997standards.html for more information.
3. See http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm for more information.
4. Hispanic Asian workers are those workers whose foreign birthplace is an Asian country, but whose ethnic origin is Hispanic.
5. We the People: Asians in the United States, U.S. Census Bureau.
6. The equation for calculating the fatality rate for a group is (N/W) × 100,000 where N is the number of fatal work injuries in that group and W is the number of workers employed in that group.
7. See http://www.bls.gov/cps for more information.
8. For the latest CPS release on the employment of foreign-born workers, see http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/forbrn.pdf.
9. See http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/foreign/ppl-145/tab01-1.pdf for more information.
10. The source category "Robber" was introduced in 1997.
11. Prior to 1999, Asians were included in a race category with Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. See www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/1997standards.html for more information.
12. The event category assaults and violent acts is comprised of homicides, self-inflicted injuries, and assaults by animals. See http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshsec2.htm#aava for more information.
13. Data are from BLS perpetrator analysis that included a source or secondary source of robber as well as narrative analysis where a reasonable inference could be made.
14. As with the robbery association above, in addition to narrative analysis, a coworker or former coworker was signified as the assailant when the source or secondary source in a homicide was coded as coworker, while a relative was signified as the assailant when the source or secondary source in a homicide was coded as relative using the 1992 Occupational Injury and Illness Classification structure developed by BLS.
15. For instance, say the fatality rate for Group A is 6, and the fatality rate for Group B is 2. If the overall fatality rate is 3, the relative risk for Group A is 6/3 or 2. That is, members of Group A are twice as likely to incur a fatal work injury than workers in general. For Group B, the relative risk is (2/3) or 0.67. That is, members of Group B are 2/3 as likely to incur a fatal work injury than workers in general.
16. See http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/cenbr01-7.pdf.
17. For more information on this industry, see http://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/sic_manual.display?id=19&tab=description
18. C.N. Le, a Ph.D. in Philosophy, a professor of Sociology and Asian American studies, and the voice behind the website Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian America, conducted research on the topic of Asian-owned small business, with a focus on businesses owned by foreign-born Asians. In his discussion, Le briefly touches upon the topic of issues facing small business owners and cites violence against owners of small retail establishments as a continuing source of hardship for Asian immigrant business-owners. See http://www.asian-nation.org/small-business.shtml.