Between 1885 and 1900, what percentage of Andrew Carnegie's steel workers died on the job annually?
the Economist.
Fatal accidents in the steel mills, he calculates, accounted for 20% of all male deaths in Pittsburgh in the 1880s. Newspaper lists of men killed and wounded each year were as long as a casualty list for a small battle in the American civil war.
"Labor and Steel".
In 1920 the mortality rate in iron and steel was nearly twice the rate in general manufacturing, according to the Prudential Insurance
Co. of America.
for laborers
the most important occupation aumerically it is more than
twice the average.*
The sickness risk in steel is bigger than the accident risk.
Excess deaths from pneumonia alone were nearly as numer-
ous in the industry in 1929 as all deaths from accidents ; and
the severity rate for non-fatal cases of sickness has been
higher than the severity rate for non- fatal accidents in the
only steel plant which is known to compile sickness severity
rates, Middletown plant of the American Rolling Mill Co. 18
What percentage of their work force did they lose annually?
( I chose those dates because they represented to my mind the most dangerous period in one of the most dangerous industries. As labor was loosing what little influence they had and before modest reforms began after 1907. )