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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: Accid Anal Prev. 2007 Apr 20;39(6):1258–1266. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2007.03.012

Table 4.

Table 4a. Top Ten Costliest DFW Injury Sources in Construction

Table 4b. Construction Injury Sources with the Ten Highest per-DFW costs

Top 10 Total DFW Costs
Rank by total of DFW
Rank by cost per DFW
BLS Source Code Source of Injury 2002 N Cost/DFW Total Cost of DFW cases Construction All Industry Construction All Industry
62 Floor surfaces 33558 $53,100 $1,781,922,582 1 2 14 45
41 Building mat 23212 $39,978 $927,973,929 2 6 30 47
56 Inj/ill person 21349 $39,976 $853,449,327 3 1 31 26
82 Vehicle, motor 7067 $44,626 $315,375,021 4 4 23 33
71 Tools - nonpow 7985 $30,252 $241,563,978 5 8 53 68
72 Tools - powered 5280 $43,746 $230,980,351 6 16 25 34
32 Construction/logging/mining mach. 3221 $64,460 $207,624,961 7 27 6 8
63 Oth structure 5037 $40,221 $202,595,606 8 9 29 63
11 Cont-nonpressur 5476 $35,767 $195,858,446 9 3 44 71
42 Ropes/ties 5913 $26,475 $156,544,161 10 24 60 75
Top 10 Total DFW Costs
Rank by total of DFW
Rank by cost per DFW
BLS Source Code Source of Injury 2002 N Cost/DFW Total Cost of DFW cases Construction All Industry Construction All Industry

30 Machinery, unsp 322 $161,191 $51,903,589 22 29 1 10
98 Oth source nec 708 $71,461 $50,594,720 23 39 2 40
69 Structure nec 89 $68,513 $6,097,648 50 81 3 20
53 Parasitic agents 118 $66,815 $7,884,172 46 54 4 24
57 Oth person 250 $65,834 $16,458,551 40 5 5 54
32 Construction/logging/mining mach. 3221 $64,460 $207,624,961 7 27 6 8
35 Met woodwrk 1795 $63,788 $114,500,121 13 7 7 7
80 Vehicle, unspec 131 $58,976 $7,725,914 47 57 8 39
02 Alkalies 494 $58,340 $28,820,088 35 60 9 19
39 Misc mach 1089 $56,672 $61,716,341 18 23 10 14