Industry Summary
As of the last reported data from 2015, there are 146,227 workers employed at 7,098 Investment Banking and Securities Dealing establishements in the United States. The industry is slowly growing, adding 1,387 jobs in the 12 months between 2014 and 2015. On average, each business employs 21 workers. Over the past 5 years this industry has recorded an accident rate of over 2 times (209% more) the average for the Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage Industry.
OSHA investigators arrived in TAMPA, FL on Thursday, August 6th 2015 and began an accident investigation after learning of an incident at JP Morgan Office which had occured on the same day. A had been injured when the inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
Accident Date2015-08-06
Accident DegreeInjury
NarrativeAn employee was hospitalized after inhaling smoke from an A/C unit that began smoking. The strong burning odor caused respiratory issues for the employee.