The following is from the 2020 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries.

• In 2020, there was a 23% decrease in fatal occupational injuries in Texas – 469 from 608.  
• Private sector employees represented 92% of total fatalities with 431 incidents in 2020 — a decrease of 142 from 2019 (573).  
• The other 38 incidents involved public/governmental sector employees — an increase of three from 2019 (35).  
• Nationally, there were 4,764 fatal occupational injuries — an incident rate of 3.4. The incident rate of fatalities in Texas was 3.9 per 100,000 full-time employees in 2020. 
• Between the public and private sectors, the construction industry had the highest number of fatalities with 127 incidents. This is 27% of all fatalities in Texas. 
• Fatalities in the transportation and warehousing industry decreased to 96 (20% of all incidents in 2020), down from 137 incidents (23% of the total) in 2019. This reverses a long-term trend of year-to-year increases.