04/27/2024
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Black workers’ job fatality rates are the highest they’ve been in nearly 15 years, according to a new report from the AFL-CIO, a coalition of unions representing 12.5 million people.
In 2022, the most recent year for which data is available, 734 Black workers died while working — largely in transportation accidents, homicides or exposure to harmful substances or environments — up from 543 in 2003.
The death rates on the job by race are in stark contrast with the racial breakdown of the American workforce. As of 2021, the most recent year for which data is available, white people made up 77% of the U.S.’ workforce, while Latino workers made up 18% and Black employees 13%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“Workplace violence is getting worse,”says Rebecca Reindel, the AFL-CIO’s safety and health director. Black and Latino workers, who make up a relatively small fraction of the workforce, were killed on the job at disproportionate rates. Of the 524 workplace homicides recorded in 2022, 175 victims were Black and 92 were Latino.
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