Deaths of Hispanic workers soar 53%Mon Mar 25, 6:18 AM ET Jim Hopkins USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO -- The Labor Department is intensifying efforts to stem an alarming rise in workplace deaths among Hispanics. Such deaths were up 53% in 2000 from 1992. Meanwhile, deaths dropped 10% for non-Hispanics, the latest data show. Fatalities fell in most of the nine years among non-Hispanics. But they rose steadily for Hispanics. At least 815 Hispanics died on the job in 2000, mostly in construction trades and often because of language gaps between supervisors and immigrant workers, experts say. Driving the trend: *...