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Mosaic 2 Reading, 4/e
Brenda Wegmann
Miki Knezevic
Marilyn Bernstein

Danger and Daring

Reading a Table

Look at the table below and complete the sentences describing it.

Occupations with the largest number of fatalities, rates, relative risk, 1995.

OccupationFatality countEmployment
(in 1,000s)
Fatality rateIndex of
relative risk
Truck drivers7492,8614.95.3
Airplane pilots11111497.419.9
Taxicab drivers9921346.59.5
Carpenters961,2557.61.6
Fishers4845104.421.3




1

The occupation with the highest fatality count is .
2

The occupation with the least amount of people is .
3

Fishers have the fatality rate.
4

Truck drivers have a relative risk index than taxi drivers.
5

The index of relative risk for airplane pilots is .
6

The occupation with the lowest fatality count but the highest relative risk is .
7

Only one occupation, , has a lower fatality rate than carpenters.
8

Airplane pilots have a fatality rate that is about 20 times higher than .



*Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupation Injuries, 1995.