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Occupational Deaths on the Rise in Georgia

By Alyssa Abkowitz

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | September 8, 2005

Statistics, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in late August, showed that Georgia saw a 16 percent increase in workplace deaths in 2004 from 2003. Florida was the only state to report a greater increase than Georgia.

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