More than 900 Wisconsinites have been killed on the job 2000-2008

The Brawler was saddened to read this story about a construction worker who fell down an elevator shaft to his death in the Third Ward.

This (still) unnamed worker's death is the sort of thing that makes the news, a single day story, that no one really remembers a week later. Sadly. It seems they happen often, but you never really know.

How often do Wisconsin workers die on the job? The Brawler did a check and found that between 2000 and 2008, per OSHA, 903 workers died on the job.

The breakdown:

2000: 107

2001: 111

2002: 91

2003: 103

2004: 94

2005: 125

2006: 91

2007: 104

2008: 77

Falls account for a not inconsiderable number of deaths every year:

2000: 7

2001: 12

2002: 7

2003: 16

2004: 10

2005: 20

2006: 13

2007: 11

2008: 7

Comments

[Jim]

There's no mention on the OSHA page of the breakdown of the numbers by gender, but I'm guessing the vast majority of the workplace fatalities are male -- the prevalence of men in dangerous jobs is just one way in which males are the disposable sex. Sadly, that angle of the story rarely gets addressed by the media.