Collecting union status for the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries: a Massachusetts case study | Zendy

J. Murray Laing | Zendy; Jill Janocha Redmond | Zendy; Michael C. Fiore | Zendy; Letitia Davis | Zendy

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Collecting union status for the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries: a Massachusetts case study

Author(s) -

J. Murray Laing,

Jill Janocha Redmond,

Michael C. Fiore,

Letitia Davis

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

monthly labor review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.265

H-Index - 54

eISSN - 1937-4658

pISSN - 0098-1818

DOI - 10.21916/mlr.2019.4

Subject(s) - census , occupational safety and health , environmental health , geography , forensic engineering , demography , socioeconomics , gerontology , medicine , demographic economics , political science , engineering , sociology , economics , population , law

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) collects information on union status for workers fatally injured on the job. Understanding how unions and collective bargaining agreements may affect workplace safety is an important area of research for policymakers, public health officials, employers, workers, and unions. This article provides background on the CFOI program and describes how the program collected union information from 2011 to 2013. It further describes the methods used as part of a special effort in Massachusetts to determine what union information was available in administrative documents. In addition, the article describes methods that may enable other CFOI state agents to generate more robust data and presents Massachusetts data by union and nonunion status for 2011–13.

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