WASHINGTON – Preliminary results from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries released today show the rate of fatal work injuries in 2014 was 3.3 per 100,000 full-time workers, the same as the final rate for 2013. While the preliminary total of 4,679 fatal work injuries was an increase of 2 percent over the revised count of 4,585 in 2013, there was also an increase in hours worked in 2014. U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez issued the following statement:

Employer name: Total Wall Inc., 390 Viking Circle, Rio, Wisconsin

Citations issued: Sept. 11, 2015

ATLANTA — Sarah Jones, a 27-year-old camera assistant, was killed while trying to escape an oncoming freight train during the filming of a scene on Feb. 20, 2014, for the movie "Midnight Rider," a biopic based on the life of musician Gregg Allman. Eight other workers were injured.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Film Allman LLC in August 2014 for one willful and one serious safety violation for exposing employees to struck-by and fall hazards.

Employer name: Ross Logging, PO Box 119, Seth, West Virginia. The worksite was located on Leatherwood Road in Elkview, West Virginia.

Citations issued: On Sept. 9, 2015, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued two willful, eight serious, and one other-than-serious safety citations.

Employer name: Scott Wheeler Development LLC, PO Box 712, Hurricane, West Virginia. The worksites were located on Riverwalk Drive and in the Breckenridge Subdivision in Ona, West Virginia.

Citations issued: On Sept. 9, 2015, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the company for one willful, two repeated and three serious violations.

Date of action: Sept. 3, 2015

Type of action: Decision and Order

Name of defendant: American Recycling & Manufacturing Co., Inc.,

Employer name: High Structural Erectors LLC, 1915 Old Philadelphia Pike, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The inspection site was at the Route 84 East Bridge, between Matamoras, Pennsylvania, and Port Jervis, New York.

Citations issued: On Sept. 3, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the company one general duty clause citation for exposing employees to heat stress conditions.

Employer name: Country Vision Cooperative 709 Mill Street Reedsville, Wisconsin

Investigation site: W2468 County Road E Chilton, Wisconsin

Citations issued: Sept. 14, 2015

Employer names: Dyke Industries Inc., Staff Right Inc., and Koosharem LLC, doing business as Select Staffing

Inspection site: 6600 Best Friend Road, Norcross, Georgia 30071

Citations issued: Citations were issued on Sept. 10, 2015.

Employer name: Al Star Recycling LLC in Houston, Texas

Citations issued: Sept. 9, 2015

Employer name: Stampcoat Inc. doing business as El Paso Tool & Die in El Paso, Texas

Citations issued: Sept. 14, 2015

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Wegmans Food Markets Inc. bills itself as an industry leader and innovator. However, recurring hazards at its 1500 Brooks Ave. bakery in Rochester — and injuries to two workers — suggest a need for the supermarket chain to address workplace safety for its employees.

In March 2015, a sanitation crew member lost his fingertip when it caught in the pinch point of an operating conveyor that he was cleaning. A month later, a mechanic sustained a first degree burn on his wrist when steam released while he attempted to repair a valve.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Since Jan. 2015, 46 Arkansas workers have lost fingers, toes, hands and legs due to amputations at work. Amputations are debilitating workplace injuries that often happen when workers must operate mechanical machinery without the proper guards or training.

Employer name: Plainville Plating Co. Inc., an electroplating facility located at 21 Forrestville Ave. in Plainville, Connecticut.

Citations issued: On Sept. 2, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued two repeat and 11 serious citations to this employer. The repeat citations stem from hazards similar to those identified during a 2010 inspection of the workplace.

Employer name: Reser's Fine Foods, Topeka, Kansas

Citations issued: Sept. 2, 2015

Participants: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's El Paso Area Office and T&T Staff Management, a professional employer organization with 5,497 employees in El Paso

CORDOVA, Ill. — A 45-year-old lost part of three fingers when his left hand caught in a table saw at a Cordova company that fabricates reusable shipping containers. Doctors reattached the fingers, but had to amputate the tip of his left middle finger. The employee has been unable to return to work.

Agency cites Mason Well Service in Odessa, Texas, for 6 workplace violations

LUBBOCK, Texas — An Upton County oil rig inferno killed family members Arturo Martinez Sr., Arturo Martinez Jr. and Rogelio Salgado in March 2015 as they worked to install a blowout preventer, which seals, controls and monitors a rig.

Employers' names: Hensel Phelps Construction Co. and CVI Development LLC

Citations issued: Sept. 3, 2015

Worker's complaint prompts OSHA investigation

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. — In a three-month period this year, health care workers at Bergen Regional Medical Center LP in Paramus were victims of violent patients in eight incidents, including one in which a nurse suffered a laceration and bruises attempting to stop an attack on a patient.