Commercial Fishing Fatality Summary: East Coast Region (2010-2014)

NIOSH recently completed an analysis of commercial fishing fatalities in the United States for the years 2010-2014 in order to identify current hazards among fisheries in different regions of the country: Alaska, West Coast, East Coast, and the Gulf of Mexico. This document is one in a set of four reports summarizing the most recent fatality and vessel disaster data for the United States.

Commercial Fishing Fatality Summary / East Coast Region (2010–2014) [PDF 1,051 KB]

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