Men are about 92% of US workplace deaths

The number

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics runs a full census of workplace deaths, not a sample. In 2024 it counted 5,070 fatal work injuries; women were 8.1 percent of them (413 deaths), which puts men at roughly 91.9 percent — about 4,657 deaths, or close to 92% of everyone killed on the job. ^[1]

What it does and doesn't establish

The headline number is accurate and stable year after year: men really do make up almost all US workplace fatalities. What the figure does not settle is why — how much of the pattern reflects free choice versus long-standing occupational segregation — or what it proves about which sex has it worse, questions the statistic alone cannot answer. Full context: Do men do almost all the dangerous jobs?