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SALT LAKE CITY — Workplace fatalities statewide increased significantly in 2014 compared with the previous year, according to a Utah Labor Commission report released Wednesday.
In all, 54 people died as a result of an incident while on the job in 2014, up from 37 in 2013 — an increase of nearly 46 percent.
Men accounted for 89 percent of Utah workplace fatalities in 2014, the same proportion reported in 2013, Utah Labor Commission spokeswoman Elena Bensor said.
Three people died from suicide while on the job, a slight decrease from the prior year, Bensor said. Four others also died "as a result of violence and other injuries by persons or animals," she said in a statement.
About 78 percent of Utahns who died from a workplace incident in 2014 were white. Six were self-employed, and 48 were wage or salary workers, Bensor said.
More than 40 percent of workplace deaths were transportation-related, according to the report.