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Each of these items is further broken down into subcomponents, which are based mainly on figures supplied by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Anyone who feels this index does not best represent his situation can make up his own index by weighing the components and/or subcomponents differently. 

Nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work, 2006. United States Bureau of Labor, News, Whashington, DC, November 8, 2007. Accessed online in 2008 http //www.bls.gov/iff/home.htm. 

The Recording Industry Association of America estimates that recorded music is a 10.4 billion industry in the United States. In 2008, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there were 53,600 music directors, arrangers, and composers (with a projected 10 percent increase in the subsequent decade), 114,600 broadcasting and sound engineering professionals (with a projected 8 percent increase in the subsequent decade), and 186,400 commercial musicians and singers (with a projected 8 percent increase in the subsequent decade). 

Natural gas is the fuel of choice for a wide range of industries (USEIA, 2002). It is a major fuel source for pulp and paper, metals, chemicals, petroleum refining, and food processing. These five industries alone accoimt for almost three quarters of industrial natural gas use and together employ 4 million people in the United States (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2007). Natural gas is also a feedstock for a variety of products, including plastics, chemicals, and fertilizers. Industrial use of natural gas accounted for 6.63 Tcf of demand in 2007 and was expected to grow to 6.82 Tcf by 2010. It is interesting to note that for many products, there is no economically viable substitute for natural gas. 

Hamilton, Alice. 1919. Women in the Lead Industries. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, no. 253. Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office. 

Statistical Abstract of the United States, Bureau of Census, Department of Conunerce, published by the Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. The price is about 50 (LCN HA202 GOVREF). The most valuable one-volume source of current statistics (population, labor force, income, and other types of information with which you should become familiar). 

Bureau of Labor Statistics (1999b), Understanding the Consumer Price Index Answers to Some Questions, stats.bls.gov/cpihome.htm. United States Department of Labor, Washington, DC. 

United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics News Washington, D.C. [2008-8-20] http // www.bls.gOv/iif/oshwc/osh/os/osnr0030.pdf. 

United States Department of Labor—Bureau of Labor Statistics USDL 02-196 April 12, 2002 Lost-Worktime Injuries and Illnesses ... 

Pressure from one of the first national labor unions in the United States, the Knights of St. Crispin, forced the United States to join the movement of reform. Massachusetts was the first American state to establish a State Bureau of Labor. It was the first state to pass a law requiring the appointment of factory inspectors, and it also enforced the 10-hour day for women and the guarding of dangerous moving equipment. 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses a variety of statistics to report the occupational injury and illness experience in the United States. The number of injuries and illnesses are reported nationwide and by industry for three basic types of cases (United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics 1997) ... 

Figure 1.1 It is safer to work in a US chemical plant than at a grocery store according to the United States Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Garry, D. (1987). In United States. Department of Labor. Bureau of Mines, Roo//all entrapment videotape Dave Garry s account, (MSHA video). Pittsburgh United States. Department of Labor. Bureau of Mines. 

Direct labor costs can be estimated usiag the flow sheet, typical labor needs (persons /shift) for each piece of process equipment, and the local labor rate. Company files are the best source for labor needs and rates, although some Hterature data are available (1,2). The hourly cost of labor ia the United States can be estimated from the M.onthly l bor Review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Production supervision costs can usually be taken as a factor, such as 15% of the direct labor cost. 

Occupational Injuries and Illnesses in the United States hy Industry, 1990, bulletin 2399 Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C., Apr. 1992. General Reference... 

More information is available on the public health impact of occupational contact dermatitis. Specific national occupational disease and illness data are available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which conducts annual surveys of approximately 180,000 employers selected to represent all private industries in the United States.68 All occupational skin diseases or disorders, including allergic contact dermatitis, are tabulated in this survey. BLS data show that occupational skin diseases accounted for a consistent 30 to 45% of all cases of occupational illnesses from the 1970s through the mid-1980s, and in recent years accounted for 15% of all occupational illness.68 The decline in this proportion may be partially related to an increase seen in disorders associated with repeated trauma. 

There were approximately 361,000 individuals employed in the fire service in the United States in 2006. About 293,000 were line firefighters, whereas the rest were supervisors or other support staff. The majority of these individuals, about nine out of ten according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), are employed by municipal or county fire departments serving communities of 25,000 people or more. Large cities are the largest employers, but many intermediatesized municipalities also employ career firefighters. 

There are three major sources of chemical statistics United States Tariff Commission, for productions and sales statistics on organic chemicals and plastic materials Bureau of the Census, for production and shipments of inorganic chemicals and Bureau of Mines, for coal chemicals. Selected chemicals are reported on a monthly basis, while hundreds are covered annually. Other sources of chemical statistics are such agencies as the Alcohol Tax Unit, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Bureau of Labor Statistics. The publications of these agencies are discussed in this paper. 

As reviewed by Karwowski and Marras (1997), work-related musculoskeletal disorders currently account for one-third of aU occupational injuries and illnesses reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) by employers every year. These disorders thus constitute the largest job-related injury and illness problem in the United States today. According to OSHA (1999), in 1997 employers reported a total of 626,000 lost workday disorders to the BLS, and these disorders accounted for 1 of every 3 spent for workers compensation in that year. Employers pay more than 15-20 billion in workers compensation costs for these disorders every year, and other expenses associated with MSDs may increase this total to 45-54 billion a year. 

Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2010). Table A-1. Fatal occupational injuries by industry and event or exposure. All United States, 2010. Available at http //www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/ cfoi/cftb0241.pdr... 

Need for Growing Workforce Looking at the Census information for the United States, the population was approximately 306 million at the beginning of the century. Census information also shows that over half that population (155 million people) was in the workforce. In the next 10 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more workers will be needed, with the workforce growing by approximately 15 million people. ... 

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