Backup and archiving remain the biggest applications for digital magnetic tape although it is also used as a physical data transport device (as the old saying goes, you can ship more data on tape in a delivery truck over a shorter time than you can send electronically).
In raw totals, road accidents have been the top overall killer of workers--mainly truck drivers and traveling salespeople--since BLS started keeping the data in 1992.
General Motors has worked with U.S. Customs on a pilot project that puts transponders in trucks to zap data about the shipment and driver to agents before the truck crosses the border.