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The Workers’ Compensation Division received notification of 31 compensable fatalities in 2014. That is the highest number of fatalities in the past five years, but it is still the fifth lowest ever reported since Oregon began tracking in 1943.	Note: Employment figures are based on data from the Oregon Employment Department. Fatality rates are the number of accepted fatal claims per 100,000 workers. The 2013 employment and fatality rate estimates are preliminary. Data exclude deaths of workers not subject to Oregon workers’ compensation coverage, such as workers who were self-employed, who worked for out-of-state employers, city of Portland police and fire employees, and federal employees.
Compensable Fatality Facts, Oregon, 2014 The average age of workers for fatal claims accepted during 2014 was 44. The oldest worker was an 80-year-old semi-truck driver, who lost control of his truck and overturned on the highway. The youngest worker was a 19-year-old firefighter driving a water tanker truck that hit an embankment and rolled over. Female workers accounted for 9.7 percent of the accepted fatalities in 2014, down from 13.3 percent in 2013. However, during the five-year period of 2010-2014, 8.9 percent of accepted fatalities were females, up from 2.8 percent in the previous five-year period (2005-2009). Five of the 31 accepted fatalities in 2014 were to workers employed in the public sector. That is the highest number of accepted fatalities in the public sector since 2002. With four fatalities, Washington County had the most accepted fatalities in Oregon during 2014. Two fatalities occurred outside of Oregon (one in California and one in Washington).	At least one worker killed in roadway accidents was not wearing a seatbelt (one was unknown). Trucks were the source for 11 of the 15 vehicles involved in fatal accidents, six of which involved semi-trucks. Note: Tenure is the amount of time the worker had worked for the employer at injury and is not necessarily indicative of the worker’s level of experience.

Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division (Oregon OSHA)
The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division (Oregon OSHA) offers a wide range of services to Oregon's employers and workers to improve workplace safety and health. These services include:

• Consultations
• Education/conferences
• Technical resources and film library
• Educational grants
• Hazard abatement assistance

For more information, contact Oregon OSHA, 350 Winter St. NE, Room 430, P.O. Box 14480, Salem, OR 97309-0405
503-378-3272 or 800-922-2689
www.orosha.org

Fatality/claims data
Visit the DCBS website at http://dcbs.oregon.gov. Select the “Statistical Reports” link for additional workers’ compensation claims data and other statistical reports, or call the Information Technology and Research Section at 503-378-8254.

Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries
National work-related fatality data can be found on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' website at http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm

Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation
Information about Oregon Health and Science University's Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (FACE) can be found at http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/centers-institutes/oregon-institute-occupational-health-sciences/outreach/or-face/?WT_rank=1

Employer workers' compensation coverage
For additional information about employer coverage requirements, you may contact the Workers' Compensation Division Employer Compliance Program at wcd.employerinfo@oregon.gov, call 888-877-5670, or find it online at: http://www.cbs.state.or.us/external/wcd/index.html

Classification systems
Data are classified according to the following classification systems:

• Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS)
• Standard Occupation Classification System (SOC)
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)