Men at much greater risk for workplace deaths, injuries

Men face a disproportionate risk of dying or being injured on the job, according to statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The reason is simple: men are more likely to work in dangerous injuries such as construction (90 percent male) and manufacturing (70 percent male), where the bulk of workplace accidents and deaths occur. Female-dominated industries such as health care and education have fewer incidents of deaths and injuries.

Approximately 7% of fatalities in 2008 were women, leaving men accounting for a whopping 93% of all workplace fatalities. Men were over 13 times more likely to die while on the job compared with women according to the report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Writer Katie Kelley has some thoughts on what these statistics mean for men and women in the workplace when it comes to compensation.