BLS — Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries

What the study found

The Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries recorded 5,070 fatal work injuries in the United States in 2024, a fatal work injury rate of 3.3 per 100,000 full-time-equivalent workers. Women accounted for 8.1 percent (413) of all worker fatalities, leaving men at roughly 91.9 percent (about 4,657) of workplace deaths that year. ^[1]

Why it matters here

A common manosphere talking point holds that men do almost all of the dangerous jobs and so bear the overwhelming share of workplace deaths. This federal data set shows that men made up the large majority of on-the-job fatalities in 2024, which is consistent with the descriptive part of that claim. The figures describe who dies at work rather than why the distribution is so skewed, so they do not on their own settle questions about occupational sorting or choice. It is cited on do men do almost all the dangerous jobs? as evidence on the sex breakdown of workplace fatalities.