Attachment 1B - Research File Data Elements

Attachment 1B

Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries

Research File Data Elements

The BLS may approve researcher access under a Letter of Agreement (LOA) or Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to a restricted access microdata research file via a Virtual Data Enclave (VDE) or a controlled-access Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC). The CFOI research file is available only to researchers with approved agreements who agree to protect the confidentiality of the data and have the safeguards in place to do so. The purpose of the LOA or MOU, which is signed by the BLS Associate Commissioner for Compensation and Working Conditions and a recipient organization official, is to ensure that users comply with the pledge of confidentiality made to data sources by the BLS and State Grantee Agencies.

The following data elements are included on the CFOI Research File for each fatality record.

1. Record ID

2. Reference year

3. Year of injury

4. Month of the injury

5. Day of the week of injury

6. Time of incident (to the nearest hour)

7. Survival (number of days between date of injury and date of death)

8. Nature of injury (BLS Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System [OIICS])

9. Part of Body (BLS OIICS)

10. Event or exposure (BLS OIICS)

11. Source of injury (BLS OIICS)

12. Secondary source of injury (BLS OIICS)

13. Worker activity (at the time of incident)

14. Location type (farm, street, mine, etc.)

15. Geographic code (four Bureau of the Census regions)

16. Occupation (Standard Occupational Classification [SOC])

17. Industry (North American Industry Classification System, U.S. [NAICS])

18. Ownership (Private; Federal, state, local, foreign or other government)

19. Establishment size (based on employment)

20. Employee status (wage and salary, self-employed, armed forces, etc.)

21. Length of time in current position¹

22. Sex²

23. Age group

24. Race

25. Hispanic origin

26. Foreign-born region of birth

27. Confined space (did the incident occur in a confined space)

28. Contractor (was the decedent a contractor)

29. Contractor industry (industry of the contracting firm)

30. Contractor ownership (ownership of the contracting firm)

31. How the injury occurred (narrative description)

32. Event or exposure flag

33. Occupation flag

34. Industry Flag

35. Ownership Flag

36. Employee Status Flag

37. Sex Flag

38. Race Flag

39. Hispanic Origin Flag

40. Reference State

41. State Record ID

42. State of injury

43. State of employment

44. State of death

45. State of residence

46. Date of death

47. Occupation narrative

48. Industry narrative

49. Actual age

50. Age Flag

51. Country of birth

52. Date of incident

53. Impairment³

54. Time workday began⁴

55. County

56. Township

57. Link code

58. Medical complication

59. National Office Use

60. Seat belt usage

61. Alcohol/Drug

62. Alcohol/Drug Specifics

63. Union status

64. Contractor narrative

65. Disaster identification

66. Disaster type

67. Disaster phase

68. Disaster subtype

69. Disaster auxiliary

70. Latency

71. Independent worker⁵

72. Educational attainment

73. Veteran status

1 Element unavailable in CFOI beyond 2022 reference year

2 Element label changed from Gender to Sex beginning with RY2024 data to comply with Executive Order 14168

3 Element unavailable in CFOI beyond 2022 reference year

4 Element unavailable in CFOI beyond 2022 reference year

5 Element label changed from Contingent/Alternative to Independent worker