TY - BOOK ID - 138233507 TI - Small businesses and workplace fatality risk : an exploratory analysis AU - Mendeloff, John M. AU - Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. AU - Kauffman-RAND Center for the Study of Small Business and Regulation. PY - 2006 PB - Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, DB - UniCat KW - Industrial accidents. KW - Occupational mortality. KW - Small business. KW - Industrial safety. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138233507 AB - Over 55 percent of Americans are employed in businesses with fewer than 100 workers. Policymakers have taken action to lessen regulatory burden on small business. However, small establishments-single physical locations-have much higher rates of deaths or serious injuries than do larger establishments. This study examined the relationship between fatality rate and business size, both in terms of establishment size and firm size, from 1992 to 2001. ER -