Older workers represent a large and growing share of workplace fatalities, according to a report issued by the AFL-CIO labor federation.
In 2014, the last year for which Bureau of Labor Statistics data are available, 35 percent of all workers who died on the job were 55 or older, the report says. The total number of deaths, 1,691, is the highest ever recorded for this group of workers.
Workers 65 or older are three times more likely to die on the job as other workers, the report issued Wednesday found.
