Visualizing Worker Deaths

Rep. George Miller’s staff at the House Committee on Education and Labor put together a striking map mashup that represents the thousands of Americans who died on the job in 2007. The markers on the image below represent just 10% of the work-related deaths last year - as the site notes, this mashup clearly “demonstrates the need to strengthen worker safety protections.”

BLS Death Mashup

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