Work hours were up in the United States in 2014. Unfortunately, so were work-related fatal injury numbers-particularly in the construction industry. According to recently released preliminary results from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, the numbers of fatal injuries in the manufacturing and construction sectors were up 9 and 6 percent, respectively, last year. Fatalities across all industries increased 2 percent to 4,679.
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