The North Carolina Department of Labor’s annual count of workplace fatalities leaves out dozens of workers who die on the job each year, in part because a workplace death doesn’t count in the statistics if the state doesn’t investigate the accident scene, according to a report in the Charlotte News & Observer.
The newspaper’s investigation showed that the labor department’s count of 23 workplace fatalities in 2013 left out more than 80 workplace deaths. Prior to 2006, the Department of Labor reported all work-related deaths annually, regardless of whether the...
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