You know there's a risk of injury and illness when you go to work. This is true in every industry, in every state. It's a risk you take on simply by being employed, and you know you have rights to workers' compensation in many cases if you're hurt or become ill on the job.

In order to better understand how and why workplace injuries happen, the Bureau of Labor Statistics did a study to track injury reporting throughout the year. To get accurate numbers and avoid one-year spikes, they took data starting in 2003 and running all the way through 2010.

A Minneapolis construction worker is dead after being injured in a fall last Wednesday. Another worker was also involved in the fall and suffered non-fatal, but serious injuries. The two workers were completing a roofing job at the construction site of the future Minnesota Viking football stadium in downtown Minneapolis.

Three individuals were injured after a gas line exploded in New York. The incident happened last Thursday at a New York City high school in the Bronx. Three construction workers were hurt in the explosion. At least three floors of John F.