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Show Accident Fntility Toll Shows Drop in 1975 Preliminary figures indicate that the national accident totality toll for 1973 Is down 3-percent in all areas compared with 1974. According to the Utah Safety Council one thousand fewer workers died from on-the-job accidents In 1975 than in 1974, according to preliminary data released by the National Safety Council. This resulted in an all-time low death rate of about 14 per 100,000 U. S. workers. Work fatalities dropped from 13,400 in 1974 to 12,400 in 1975, for a decrease of about 7 per cent. Excluding agriculture, the 1975 occupational death toll was 10,400, of which 1,500 fatalities occurred in manufacturing industries. The previous low was established in 1974 when the work death rate was 15 for every 100,000 workers. The death rate stood at about 17 per 100,000 employees in 1973 and 1972. The highest death rate was recorded in 1937 when work-related accidents killed 43 out of every 100,000 workers. While 12,400 workers were killed on the Job in 197S, an additional 39,000 died from off-the-Job accidents, including traffic accidents. The total number of workers killed in 1975 from all accidents was 51,400. Occupationally related disabling injuries numbered approximately 2,100,000 for 1975 compared to 2,300,000 for 1974. Workers injured in both on-the-job and off-the-Job accidents last year totaled 5,300,000. The total coast of work accidents in 1975, including less from business fires, amounted to about $15.9 billion. Home accident fatalities decreased two per cent from 25,500 in 1974 to 25,000 in 1975. Deaths from public accidents, not including motor vehicles, dropped from 24,000 in 1974 to 23,000 in 1975, for a four percent decrease. Motor vehicle deaths dropped one per cent from 46,200 in 1974 to 45,600 in 1975. The total of all accidental deaths decreased three per cent from 105,000 in 1974 to 102,000 in 1975. |