National death rates were calculated using denominators from employment data from the Current Population Survey, a population-based household survey of the Bu- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Fatal Occupational Injuries — Continued CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) monitors occupational injury deaths through death certificates compiled for the National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities (NTOF) surveillance system* (1 ). Previous reports analyzed data from 1980–1989 (1–3 ). This report updates these estimates on the magnitude of work-related injury deaths for the United States from 1980 through 1994, the most recent year for which data are available from this system, and identifies high-risk industries and occupations at national and state-specific levels. The findings indicate that the annual total number of deaths and crude death rates decreased from 7405 (7.5 per 100,000 workers) in 1980 to 5406 (4.4 per 100,000 workers) in 1994. National death rates were calculated using denominators from employment data from the Current Population Survey, a population-based household survey of the Bu-