Attachment 1A - Data Elements

Attachment 1A

Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries

Data Elements

(Collected and Coded by States, Cities, and Territories)

• Reference State and year

• Injury or illness

• State of residence

• Date of birth

• Age, Source document associated with age

• Race, Source document associated with race

• Hispanic or Latino origin, Source document associated with Hispanic or Latino Origin

• Gender, Source document associated with gender

• Industry code and narrative (North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)), Source document associated with industry

• Ownership (Federal, State, local, foreign, or other government; or private sector), Source document associated with ownership

• Establishment size class

• Occupation code and narrative (Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)), Source document associated with occupation

• Employee status (Active duty military, self-employed, family business, working for pay, volunteer, institutionalized individuals, unknown), Source document associated with employee status

• State of employment

• Date of incident and death

• State of incident and death

• County/Township of injury

• Time of incident

• Time workday began

• Time of incident before time workday began

• Nature of injury/illness (BLS Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS))

• Part of body (BLS OIICS)

• Primary and secondary source of injury/illness (BLS OIICS)

• Event or exposure (BLS OIICS), Source document associated with event or exposure

• Worker activity

• Location type (farm, street, mine, etc.)

• How the injury/illness occurred (narrative description; up to 1,500 characters)

• Source documents requested and received

• Link code (links fatalities resulting from a single incident)

• Birthplace—country

• Medical complication

• Impairments

• Contractor information (whether worker was employed by a contractor and contracting agency’s industry code, industry narrative, and ownership)*

• Length of time (in years) in occupation/current position/with employer

• Processing comments (state, regional, and national)

• Union status (whether bargaining unit existed in the workplace)

• Confined space incident (whether worker was in a confined space)

• Alcohol/drug, narrative (whether the decedent was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and which ones specifically)

• Disaster codes (whether the death was a result of a CFOI-designated disaster)

• Seat belt (whether decedent was wearing a seat belt)

• Educational Attainment*

• Veteran Status*

• Independent Worker*

*Added beginning with data for 2016