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Nancy A. Stout, EdD; Catherine A. Bell, BGS; Thomas R. Bender, MD, MPH; John R. Myers, MSF
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Morgantown, WVa

Carol S. Conroy, MPH, PhD
Failure Analysis Associates Menlo Park, Calif

JAMA. 1990;264(21):2737.

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We agree with Dr Goldberg that fatality rates using person-years as denominators rather than workers at risk would be very useful. However, at the national level, employment data that are both based on hours worked and disaggregated by demographic and employment characteristics (eg, age, sex, race, state, occupation, industry) are not readily available on an annual basis. In fact, we had to use several different sources of denominator data to compute the various rates presented.

After we obtain complete numerator data for 1980 to 1990, we intend to calculate national traumatic occupational fatality rates based on person-time denominators from the 1980 and 1990 census. In developing the rates for this article, we felt that worker-based employment data that coincide with the time period represented by the numerator would generate more accurate rates than hourly-based denominator data that would have to be extrapolated from 1980.

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