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Texas Work-Related Fatalities Increase

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Preliminary data indicate that there were 480 work-related fatalities in Texas in 2009.  This represents an approximate four percent increase over the revised 2008 total of 463 fatalities.  Nationally, there were 4,340 fatal work injuries in 2009.  This represented a seventeen percent decrease from the revised total in 2008.

Transportation incidents continue to be the leading cause of deaths.  Over half of the non-highway incidents occurred at an industrial premise or on a farm.

Take a look at this Insurance Journal article –

Texas Employee Deaths Up in 2009

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Dean Malone is the founder of Law Offices of Dean Malone, P.C., a jail neglect civil rights law firm. Mr. Malone earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA, and from Baylor University School of Law with a general civil litigation concentration. Mr. Malone served in several staff positions for the Baylor Law Review, including executive editor. Mr. Malone is an experienced trial lawyer, trying a number of cases to jury verdict and also handling arbitrations through final hearing. He heads the jail neglect section of his law firm, in which lawyers litigate cases involving serious injury and death resulting from jail neglect and abuse. Lawyers frequently refer cases to Mr. Malone due to his focus on this very complicated civil rights practice area.
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