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Workplace Safety

Note: In prior years, we reported our Global Severity Rate and Severity Rate by Region (both per 100 employees). We do not use these metrics to make business decisions, so we no longer track or report them.

A. Global Lost-time Case Rate (per 100 Employees)

Cases with one or more days away from work per 200,000 hours
  2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Ford Motor Company (global) 1.2 1.5 1.1 0.9 0.7 0.6
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average for NAICS Code 3361 (motor vehicles manufacturing) 1.8 1.9 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.3

B. Lost-time Case Rate by Region (per 100 Employees)

Cases with one or more days away from work per 200,000 hours
  2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Americas 1.7 2.1 1.5 1.2 1.0 0.9
Europe 0.7 1.0 0.9 0.7 0.6 0.5
Asia Pacific and Africa 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2

European data were amended for 2005.

  • Reported to regulatory authorities

C. Workplace Health and Safety Violations

Number of violations
  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Total 8 1 9 7 0
Americas 8 1 9 7 0
Europe 0 0 0 0 0
Asia Pacific/Africa 0 0 0 0 0

D. Global Fatalities

Number of fatalities
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2 2 6 9 4 4