Rate of Non-Fatal Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses Reported by Private Sector Employers by Year, 2000 to 2010

Why Is This Important?

Thousands of workers are injured each day in the United States. Almost all injuries and illnesses in the workplace are preventable with intervention through education, engineering, and/or regulatory measures. In 2010, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported an estimated total of 3.1 million injury and illness cases within the private sector workforce, an estimated incidence rate of 3.5 cases per 100 full-time-equivalent (FTE) workers. This included 1 million injury and illness cases (1.1 cases per 100 FTEs) requiring recuperation away from work beyond the incident day . The cost of work-related injuries, illnesses and deaths is significant. Employers and insurers spent nearly $74 billion on workers? compensa-tion in 2009 . This amount does not include costs to employers, workers and society for lost productivity, charges to other insurance systems, and out-of-pocket expenses.

Definition

Estimated annual total work-related injury and illness incidence rate per 100,000 full-time qquivalent workers (FTEs) Estimated annual total incidence rate for cases involving days away from work per 100,000 FTEs The rates presented here, which are cases per 100,000 FTEs, were derived by multiplying BLS published rates by 1,000. These converted rates are not as precise as those that would be calculated from the raw Annual Survey data.

Data Source

How the Measure is Calculated

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