title: Trends in fatal occupational injuries and industrial restructuring in North Carolina in the 1980s.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study examined the relationship between changes in employment in North Carolina in the 1980s and fatal occupational injury rates.
  
  
  METHODS
  Unintentional fatal occupational injuries (n = 1989) in North Carolina between 1978 and 1991 were identified via the medical examiner's system.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall fatal injury rates declined during the 1980s, but rates increased 9.6% per year among manufacturing industries that declined in employment size; rates fell among service sector and manufacturing industries that grew.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Increasing occupational fatal injury rates accompanied the decline in workforce in North Carolina's traditional, labor-intensive manufacturing industries during the 1980s, while service sector and expanding manufacturing industries have experienced declining fatal injury rates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599-8050, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Richardson
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Loomis
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry / Q000639:trends*; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends; D009657:North Carolina / Q000453:epidemiology