The U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS says there were 5,190 Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2021. Are men more affected than women? Let's find out!

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Firstly, let's glance at Wikipedia's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_fatality page: no gender imbalance is mentioned, that probably there is none, right?

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Luckily the BoLS provides all it's data in one neat overview page: https://www.bls.gov/iif/fatal-injuries-tables.htm, and we can easily spot what we are looking for: Distribution of fatal injury events by gender of worker (HTML).

Roadway incidents Men: 24%

Roadway incidents Women: 25%

Falls, slips, trips Men: 17%

Falls, slips, trips Women: 11%

Hurray, there is essentially no imbalance between men and women workplace fatalities!

Wait, there is something fishy going on in here. Those percentages add up to 100, the graph does not show distribution of fatal injury events by gender, it shows distribution of fatal injury events by category per each gender.

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That's wired. Let's look at race. There is the Number of fatal work injuries by race or ethnic origin (HTML) page and it shows exactly what you would expect:

White: 3,103

African American: 653

Hispanic: 1,130

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No other gender categories in the overview page. Maybe searching for "gender" will help? Indeed, Google returns data for Homicides and other workplace assaults by gender in 2019 (HTML)

Homicides Men: 7.5%

Homicides Women: 20.1%

All other fatal incidents Men: 92.5%

All other fatal incidents Women: 79.9%

Again, actual gender comparison. Is this deliberate?

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Finally, this page contains a tidbit of information: News Release - 2021 data (HTML)

Worker characteristics

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- Women made up 8.6 percent of all workplace fatalities but represented 14.5 percent of intentional injuries by a person in 2021.

What do they mean by "but represented 14.5 percent of intentional injuries by a person"? That still makes 75.5% of victims male. What is going on in here?