National Workplace Fatalities Down in 2001, with One Big Exception

Workplace deaths were down slightly in 2001, but the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks pushed the overall total to almost 9,000, according to statistics released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI).In California, work-related fatalities were down about 8 percent, with declines in all major incident categories except falls, which increased sharply.The Sept. 11 attacks killed nearly 3,000 workers in New York's World Trade Center, the