Capacity utilization, which measures how close to full output factories, mines and utilities are operating, fell to 81.6percentt from 82.1percentt.
Total industrial output, covering factories, mines and utilities, declined 0.1 percent.
[C11.] Output at factories, utilities and mines fell 0.3percentt in August from July.
Output at factories, mines and utilities fell 1.1percentt in October, the biggest decrease since November 1990, the Federal Reserve said.
Output from factories has fallen for 12 months in a row and is now 13.8% lower than a year ago.
Output at factories, utilities and mines rose 11.1percentt from the period a year earlier, after a revised 12.4percentt increase in April, the Central Statistical Organization said.
Stocks turned positive yesterday on a Federal Reserve report showing a bigger-than-expected 0.4percentt increase in output at factories, mines and utilities in February.
US industrial production was flat in July, as a mini surge in mining activity was offset by falling output from factories.
States that amended the law in favour of workers over employers suffered weaker investment, employment and output at factories that employed ten workers or more, Messrs Besley and Burgess found.
That helped drive industrial production, which includes output at factories, mines and utilities, up 0.6 percent in July, the fourth consecutive monthly increase.
