Table 10. Percent distribution of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work, job transfer, or restriction (DART)[1] by selected occupations and number of days, local government, California, 2021-2022
| Occupation | Percent of cases involving | Median days | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total cases | 1 day | 2 days | 3 to 5 days | 6 to 10 days | 11 to 20 days | 21 to 30 days | 31 days or more | ||
| Total | 100.0 | 5.6 | 3.7 | 10.7 | 24.8 | 19.4 | 5.2 | 30.6 | 12 |
| Police and sheriff’s patrol officers | 100.0 | 7.2 | 3.9 | 13.2 | 29.0 | 25.7 | 1.2 | 19.7 | 10 |
| Firefighters | 100.0 | 6.6 | 6.5 | 8.6 | 21.3 | 21.9 | 3.5 | 31.5 | 11 |
| Correctional officers and jailers | 100.0 | .8 | -- | 5.7 | 25.0 | 39.1 | 3.7 | 25.4 | 12 |
| Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners | 100.0 | -- | 7.1 | 8.4 | 15.7 | 17.4 | 9.1 | 41.3 | 21 |
| Teaching assistants, preschool, elementary, middle, and secondary school, except special education | 100.0 | 10.3 | 4.2 | 16.3 | 18.9 | 10.3 | 7.6 | 32.4 | 12 |
| Elementary school teachers, except special education | 100.0 | 11.5 | -- | 11.3 | 29.5 | 12.3 | 6.4 | 26.3 | 10 |
| First-line supervisors of police and detectives | 100.0 | -- | 1.1 | 5.0 | 29.6 | 21.3 | -- | 26.0 | 12 |
| First-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers | 100.0 | 11.2 | 1.9 | 6.3 | 22.3 | 11.9 | 5.2 | 41.3 | 13 |
| Bus drivers, transit and intercity | 100.0 | 4.3 | 1.2 | 10.5 | 8.2 | 5.8 | -- | 69.6 | 43 |
| Landscaping and groundskeeping workers | 100.0 | 1.2 | -- | 8.4 | 13.5 | 14.3 | 7.6 | 54.6 | 39 |
| Teaching assistants, special education | 100.0 | 7.3 | -- | 5.3 | 25.1 | 19.8 | 4.9 | 36.4 | 14 |
| Maintenance and repair workers, general | 100.0 | 1.6 | -- | 7.8 | 11.8 | 13.1 | 10.2 | 50.2 | 30 |
| Registered nurses | 100.0 | 2.9 | 5.4 | 32.0 | 13.7 | 18.7 | 5.0 | 22.0 | 9 |
| Office clerks, general | 100.0 | 3.4 | 12.2 | 6.3 | 10.2 | 43.9 | -- | 22.0 | 11 |
| Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators | 100.0 | -- | 1.6 | 7.9 | 18.5 | 22.8 | 7.4 | 36.0 | 17 |
| Detectives and criminal investigators | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | 83.9 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 7.0 | 8 |
| Eligibility interviewers, government programs | 100.0 | -- | -- | 17.5 | 14.9 | -- | 9.6 | 4.4 | 13 |
| Subway and streetcar operators | 100.0 | -- | 7.3 | 19.1 | 15.5 | 10.9 | -- | 46.4 | 20 |
| Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 16.7 | 7 |
| Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists | 100.0 | -- | -- | 8.3 | 19.4 | 27.8 | -- | 42.6 | 19 |
| Court, municipal, and license clerks | 100.0 | 6.8 | -- | -- | 84.5 | -- | -- | 2.9 | 10 |
| Food preparation workers | 100.0 | -- | -- | 23.0 | 3.0 | -- | -- | 51.0 | 38 |
| Bus drivers, school | 100.0 | -- | -- | 5.2 | 10.3 | 6.2 | -- | 60.8 | 39 |
| Substitute teachers, short-term | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 60.9 | 32 |
| Security guards | 100.0 | 17.5 | -- | 10.0 | 11.3 | 17.5 | -- | 38.8 | 18 |
| First-line supervisors of correctional officers | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 63.3 | -- | -- | 11 |
Footnotes
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- Cases involving days away from work, job transfer, or restriction (DART) are the sum of cases with days away from work (DAFW) and cases involving only days of job transfer or restriction (DJTR). Days-away-from-work cases include those that resulted in days away from work, some of which may also include days of job transfer or restriction. Days of job transfer or restriction cases include those that result in only days of job transfer or restriction.
NOTE: Dashes indicate data that are not available. Because of rounding and data exclusion of nonclassifiable responses, data may not sum to the totals.
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses in cooperation with participating state agencies, November 8, 2023.