I don't pay that much attention to football, so I did not know this.

[Effete Snob]

14. Workplace deaths occur regardless of the economic system

In 2021, over 5,000 people died on the job.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm

Key findings from the 2021 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries

- The 3.6 fatal occupational injury rate in 2021 represents the highest annual rate since 2016.
- A worker died every 101 minutes from a work-related injury in 2021.
- The share of Black or African American workers fatally injured on the job reached an all time high in
2021, increasing from 11.4 percent of total fatalities in 2020 to 12.6 percent of total fatalities in 2021.
Deaths for this group climbed to 653 in 2021 from 541 in 2020, a 20.7-percent increase. The fatality rate
for this group increased from 3.5 in 2020 to 4.0 per 100,000 FTE workers in 2021.
- Suicides continued to trend down, decreasing to 236 in 2021 from 259 in 2020, an 8.9-percent decrease.
- Workers in transportation and material moving occupations experienced a series high of 1,523 fatal
work injuries in 2021 and represent the occupational group with the highest number of fatalities. This is
an increase of 18.8 percent from 2020.
- Transportation incidents remained the most frequent type of fatal event in 2021 with 1,982 fatal injuries,
an increase of 11.5 percent from 2020. This major category accounted for 38.2 percent of all work-
related fatalities for 2021.