Dlsr Data Gives Breakdown of California’s 1998 Workplace Deaths

In our last issue, we outlined information recently released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that occupational fatalities in California were down 5 percent in1998 (see NEWS, p. 7223).Since that issue, the Department of Industrial Relations' Division of Labor Statistics and Research (DLSR) has issued more detailed information about the California data. The following chart breaks down fatalities in the major occupational categories, compared to the previous year.The