Dive Brief:

• In the latest numbers for work-related deaths, the construction industry reversed a trend that had been going on for several years and had a higher fatality rate than the year before.
• The data from 2012, the latest year available, showed a death rate of 9.9 per 100,000 workers after 2011 had reached a recent low of 9.1 per 100,000, according to an analysis by the AFL-CIO.
• The report did not exactly blame boom times in North Dakota for the rise in the rate, but it did note that the state's death rate was almost 10 times the national average at 97.4 per 100,000 workers.

Dive Insight:

The AFL-CIO report notes that construction had the most total deaths in 2012, with 806, when the information is sorted by industry sector. It did not have the highest death rate, however. When the data was classified by occupation, transportation and material moving were ahead of the classification known as construction and extraction.