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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 5,000 fatal workplace accidents were recorded in the U.S. in 2024, with truck drivers and construction workers accounting for a large share.
“There were 5,070 fatal workplace injuries recorded in the United States in 2024, a decrease of 4.0 percent from 5,283 in 2023,” the BLS revealed Thursday.
The data shows that in 2024 there were 1,018 fatal workplace accidents involving motor vehicle drivers, including as many as 798 among heavy truck and semi-trailer truck drivers.
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A construction worker helps build a support column with steel reinforcement during the construction of a condo tower on February 10, 2025 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/Getty Images)
“The number of traffic incidents involving motorized land vehicles decreased by 8.5 percent from 1,252 in 2023 to 1,146 in 2024, while the number of pedestrian incidents involving motorized land vehicles increased by 19.0 percent to 369 in 2024, compared to 310 in 2023,” the agency said.
According to the report, there were 788 fatal injuries among construction workers in 2024, and 239 among site maintenance workers.
A significant portion of the total number of fatal occupational accidents concerns homicides and suicides, 470 and 263 respectively in 2024.
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A tractor trailer on a highway during a winter storm in Dallas, Texas, on Saturday, January 24, 2026. (Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
There were 410 people linked to drug and alcohol overdoses.
“The decline in fatal injuries in 2024 was largely driven by a 16.2 percent decline in the number of fatalities resulting from exposure to harmful substances or environments (from 820 to 687 cases). This decline was in turn driven by a decline in drug or alcohol overdoses, which accounted for 59.7 percent of fatalities in this category, falling from 512 fatalities in 2023 to 410 fatalities in 2024,” according to BLS.
Among forest, conservation and logging workers, there were only 53 fatal occupational injuries in 2024, and among fishing and hunting workers only 24, the data show.
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Workers at a construction site for the Gateway Program Hudson Tunnel Project in New York on Tuesday, February 17, 2026. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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But both categories had a high incidence of fatal workplace injuries per 100,000 full-time workers, with logging workers at 110.4 per 100,000 workers, and fishing and hunting workers at 88.8 per 100,000 in 2024. according to the BLS. Among roofers, that figure is 48.7 per 100,000 employees.
