Table 10. Percent distribution of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work[1] by selected occupations and number of days away from work, local government, California, 2020
| Occupation | Percent of cases involving | Median days away from work | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total cases | 1 day | 2 days | 3 to 5 days | 6 to 10 days | 11 to 20 days | 21 to 30 days | 31 or more days | ||
| Total | 100.0 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 10.0 | 11.5 | 25.6 | 9.4 | 32.0 | 16 |
| Police and sheriff’s patrol officers | 100.0 | 6.9 | 3.0 | 8.7 | 9.5 | 31.6 | 9.9 | 30.4 | 15 |
| Correctional officers and jailers | 100.0 | -- | 6.3 | 7.3 | 5.9 | 36.6 | 10.7 | 30.7 | 19 |
| Firefighters | 100.0 | -- | 11.8 | 10.8 | 5.4 | 19.2 | 20.7 | 30.0 | 21 |
| Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners | 100.0 | 6.6 | -- | 13.2 | 6.0 | 19.2 | 8.6 | 45.0 | 27 |
| First-line supervisors of police and detectives | 100.0 | -- | 6.5 | 4.9 | 13.0 | 22.8 | 22.8 | 30.1 | 22 |
| First-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 37.2 | 14.2 | 43.4 | 26 |
| Landscaping and groundskeeping workers | 100.0 | 7.9 | -- | 8.9 | 24.8 | 17.8 | 7.9 | 31.7 | 13 |
| Registered nurses | 100.0 | -- | 4.9 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 42.0 | -- | 23.5 | 18 |
| Maintenance and repair workers, general | 100.0 | 14.7 | 5.9 | 8.8 | 26.5 | 7.4 | 8.8 | 27.9 | 10 |
| Nursing assistants | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 68.9 | 6.6 | 9.8 | 13 |
| Teaching assistants, except postsecondary | 100.0 | 10.3 | 19.0 | -- | -- | 10.3 | -- | 60.3 | 48 |
| Bus drivers, transit and intercity | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 27.8 | -- | 63.0 | 45 |
| Teaching assistants, preschool, elementary, middle, and secondary school, except special education | 100.0 | 11.9 | 26.2 | -- | -- | 9.5 | -- | 50.0 | 56 |
| Medical secretaries and administrative assistants | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| School bus monitors and protective service workers, all other | 100.0 | -- | -- | 32.5 | -- | 65.0 | -- | -- | 19 |
| Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | 73.7 | 15.8 | -- | -- | 7 |
| Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators | 100.0 | 50.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 11.1 | 13.9 | 2 |
| Elementary school teachers, except special education | 100.0 | -- | 25.8 | -- | 12.9 | -- | 22.6 | 25.8 | 10 |
| Food preparation workers | 100.0 | -- | -- | 13.3 | 13.3 | -- | 46.7 | -- | 29 |
| First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers | 100.0 | -- | -- | 31.0 | 48.3 | -- | -- | -- | 6 |
| Bus drivers, school | 100.0 | -- | -- | 14.8 | -- | -- | -- | 51.9 | 53 |
| Passenger vehicle drivers, except bus drivers, transit and intercity | 100.0 | -- | -- | 14.8 | -- | -- | -- | 51.9 | 53 |
| Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 47.6 | -- | 38.1 | 16 |
| Health information technologists, medical registrars, surgical assistants, and healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 90.0 | -- | -- | 18 |
| Detectives and criminal investigators | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 47.4 | -- | 21.1 | 14 |
| Health information technologists and medical registrars | 100.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 18 |
Footnotes
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- Days-away-from-work cases include those that result in days away from work with or without 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 3, 2021