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The number of U.S. Hispanic workers who die on the job has risen by 76 percent since 1992, even as the nation's total number of on-the-job deaths is on the decline, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The amount of Hispanic worker deaths increased from 533 in 1992 to 937 in 2007, with a record 990 deaths in 2006, USA Today reports.
The problem has been especially pronounced in Texas, triggering a 2008 investigation into 50 workplace deaths by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration office. So far this year, they've investigated 21, including three men who fell 11 stories this month from a faulty scaffold, according to the paper.
Only part of the uptick can be explained by the rising number of Hispanics in the American workforce. The proportion increased to 14 percent in 2007 from 10.4 percent in 1998, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
