Fatal Work Injuries in the District of Columbia — 2024

Fatal work injuries totaled 11 in 2024 for the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Alexandra Hall Bovee noted that the number of work-related fatalities in the District of Columbia was down from 12 in 2023. (See chart 1 and the online table.) The fatal work injury rate was 3.0 fatalities per 100,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers in 2024, a decrease from a rate of 3.5 in 2023. Nationwide, a total of 5,070 fatal work injuries were recorded in 2024, a 4.0-percent decrease from 5,283 in 2023. These data are from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI).

• Violent acts (5) were the most frequent type of fatal event in the District of Columbia, accounting for 45 percent of all fatal work injuries in the District. Nationally the share was 14 percent.

• Fatal workplace injuries in private industry accounted for 64 percent of District fatalities.

• Wage and salary workers accounted for all 11 fatal workplace injuries in the District of Columbia. Nationally, wage and salary workers comprised 82 percent of fatalities.

• Males accounted for 82 percent of the work-related fatalities in the District of Columbia and 92 percent nationally.

• Fatalities among Hispanic or Latino workers (3) remained unchanged from 2023 and accounted for 27 percent of the work-related fatalities in the District of Columbia. Nationwide, this group accounted for 24 percent of work-related deaths.

• Workers 45-54 years old accounted for four, or 36 percent, of the state's work-related fatalities, compared to 19 percent of on-the-job fatalities nationally.

Additional tables for the District of Columbia can be found on the BLS website.

Background of the program. The Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational Safety and Health Statistics (OSHS) program, is a count of all fatalities resulting from workplace injuries occurring in the U.S. during the calendar year. For technical information and definitions for the CFOI, see the national CFOI release Technical notes, the BLS Handbook of Methods, and the CFOI definitions.

Acknowledgments. BLS thanks the District of Columbia Department of Health for their efforts in collecting accurate, comprehensive, and useful data on fatal work injuries. BLS also appreciates the efforts of all federal, state, local, and private sector entities that provided source documents used to identify fatal work injuries nationally. See the national CFOI release Technical Notes for details on cooperating entities.

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