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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Occup Environ Med. 2017 Jan;59(1):1–5. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000903
Krieger Category Job Title n %
White Collar (n=13,063; 47.78%)
Aerospace engineers 139 0.51
Agricultural and food scientists 34 0.12
Architects, except naval 172 0.63
Atmospheric and space scientists 13 0.05
Biological scientists 121 0.44
Chemical engineers 52 0.19
Chemical technicians 76 0.28
Chemists and materials scientists 85 0.31
Civil engineers 308 1.13
Computer software engineers 991 3.62
Construction and building inspectors 13 0.05
Construction managers 771 2.82
Customer service representatives 2142 7.84
Designers 748 2.74
Dispatchers 297 1.09
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers 7 0.03
Electrical and electronics engineers 290 1.06
Engineering managers 85 0.31
Environmental engineers 54 0.20
Environmental scientists and geoscientists 80 0.29
Financial analysts 100 0.37
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers 6 0.02
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers 10 0.04
General and operations managers 743 2.72
Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists 569 2.08
Industrial production managers 242 0.89
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers 16 0.06
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand 9 0.03
Lawyers, Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers 837 3.06
Marketing and sales managers 738 2.70
Mechanical engineers 208 0.76
Natural sciences managers 11 0.04
News analysts, reporters and correspondents 88 0.32
Nuclear engineers 12 0.04
Other education, training, and library workers 127 0.46
Other healthcare practitioners and technical occupations 65 0.24
Other life, physical, and social science technicians 98 0.36
Personal financial advisors 327 1.20
Production, planning, and expediting clerks 269 0.98
Public relations specialists 90 0.33
Purchasing agents and buyers, farm products 10 0.04
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing 1239 4.53
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks 579 2.12
Urban and regional planners 38 0.14
Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products 154 0.56
Service (n=26; 0.10%)
Customer service representatives 6 0.02
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers 6 0.02
Fish and game wardens 9 0.03
Maintenance and repair workers, general 5 0.01
Farm (n=40; 0.15%)
Agricultural inspectors 25 0.09
Forest and conservation workers 15 0.05
Blue Collar (14,209; 51.98%)
Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers 22 0.08
Boilermakers 12 0.04
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists 298 1.09
Bus drivers 638 2.33
Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers 84 0.31
Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders 46 0.17
Computer control programmers and operators 63 0.23
Construction and building inspectors 89 0.33
Construction laborers 1406 5.14
Construction managers 21 0.08
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers 96 0.35
Customer service representatives 5 0.01
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 113 0.41
Derrick, rotary drill, and service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining 28 0.10
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers 2946 10.78
Electrical and electronics repairers, industrial and utility 11 0.04
Electrical power-line installers and repairers 125 0.42
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers 196 0.72
Electricians 469 1.72
Engine and other machine assemblers 22 0.08
First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers 266 0.97
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers 723 2.65
Hazardous materials removal workers 37 0.14
Helpers, construction trades 66 0.24
Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers 22 0.08
Industrial and refractory machinery mechanics 421 1.54
Industrial truck and tractor operators 546 2.00
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers 795 2.91
Insulation workers 53 0.19
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand 1640 6.0
Locomotive engineers and operators 33 0.12
Machinists 341 1.25
Maintenance and repair workers, general 393 1.44
Millwrights 40 0.15
Mining machine operators 44 0.16
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators 1049 3.84
Miscellaneous construction and related workers 24 0.09
Miscellaneous plant and system operators 29 0.11
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators 322 1.18
Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers 39 0.14
Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators 9 0.03
Railroad conductors and yardmasters 41 0.15
Refuse and recyclable material collectors 88 0.32
Roofers 167 0.61
Sheet metal workers 132 0.48
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks 10 0.04
Stationary engineers and boiler operators 83 0.30
Structural iron and steel workers 73 0.27
Structural metal fabricators and fitters 33 0.12