There’s encouraging news on the safety front, including the impact on immigrant employees, who comprise roughly 15.6% of the adult, civilian workforce, or 24.1 million people (Dept. of Labor, 2008). In 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that overall fatal work injuries were down from 2008.  Workplace fatalities among foreign-born Latino workers dropped by 22% from the previous year.  Of course, we’re by no means off the hook, as 680 of the fatal work injuries in the United States in 2009 involved foreign-born workers. This accounted for 16% of all fatal work injuries, a figure that we must ...