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Title: Bees are No. 1 Bug Killer of Workers, Labor Department Reports
Post by: apisbees on August 19, 2014, 10:48:15 pm

Bees are No. 1 Bug Killer of Workers, Labor Department Reports
Bees were responsible for more workplace deaths (52) than spiders, wasps and ants combined, according to a new U.S. Labor Department report.
http://www.pctonline.com/Bees-top-bug-killer-workplace.aspx (http://www.pctonline.com/Bees-top-bug-killer-workplace.aspx)

From the United States Department of labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-3/fatal-injuries-and-nonfatal-occupational-injuries-and-illnesses-involving-insects-arachnids-and-mites.htm (http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-3/fatal-injuries-and-nonfatal-occupational-injuries-and-illnesses-involving-insects-arachnids-and-mites.htm)

Title: Re: Bees are No. 1 Bug Killer of Workers, Labor Department Reports
Post by: CpnObvious on August 20, 2014, 08:56:07 am

That's pretty interesting... and a little surprising.  I would've figured Wasps & Hornets would've been a far greater cause... not bees.

I don't understand how their numbers add up in Table 2, though.  Total of 83 people:  Male 82 (they don't offer info about the female).  When you add the number of people in each age range, it only totals 80.  I would assume there were not deaths under the age of 20, so it wasn't included.  So there's 2 males unaccounted for, and 1 female.

As I type this, I still have a hard time believing that BEES caused more deaths than their evil counter-parts.  :sad: