Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Tweet[IWS] BLS: LOST-WORKTIME INJURIES AND ILLNESSES: CHARACTERISTICS AND RESULTING TIME AWAY FROM WORK, 2004 [13 December 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
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LOST-WORKTIME INJURIES AND ILLNESSES: CHARACTERISTICS AND RESULTING TIME AWAY FROM WORK, 2004 [13 December 2005]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/osh2.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/osh2.pdf
[full-text, 32 pages]
A total of 1.3 million injuries and illnesses in private industry required
recuperation away from work beyond the day of the incident in 2004, according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor. This was a decline of 56,600
illnesses and injuries, or 4.3 percent, from 2003. The rate of such injuries and illnesses
in 2004 also declined to 141.3 per 10,000 full time workers from 150.0 in 2003. Median
days away from worka key measure of the severity of the injury or illnesswas 7 days
for all cases in 2004, down from 8 days in 2003.
As was the case in previous years, more than 4 out of 10 of injuries and illnesses
were sprains or strains, with most of these stemming from overexertion or falls on the
same level. Twenty percent of the sprains and strains occurred in three occupations
laborers and material movers; heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers; and nursing aides,
orderlies, and attendants. These occupations also had the greatest number of injuries and
illnesses, accounting for over 16 percent of the total days away from work cases (see
chart 1).
In 2004, injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work in the goods-
producing industries, such as construction and manufacturing, remained relatively the
same as the previous year with 408,400 cases, while injuries and illnesses in service
providing industries declined 6.3 percent to 850,930 (see table 1).
AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
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Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
LOST-WORKTIME INJURIES AND ILLNESSES: CHARACTERISTICS AND RESULTING TIME AWAY FROM WORK, 2004 [13 December 2005]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/osh2.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/osh2.pdf
[full-text, 32 pages]
A total of 1.3 million injuries and illnesses in private industry required
recuperation away from work beyond the day of the incident in 2004, according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor. This was a decline of 56,600
illnesses and injuries, or 4.3 percent, from 2003. The rate of such injuries and illnesses
in 2004 also declined to 141.3 per 10,000 full time workers from 150.0 in 2003. Median
days away from worka key measure of the severity of the injury or illnesswas 7 days
for all cases in 2004, down from 8 days in 2003.
As was the case in previous years, more than 4 out of 10 of injuries and illnesses
were sprains or strains, with most of these stemming from overexertion or falls on the
same level. Twenty percent of the sprains and strains occurred in three occupations
laborers and material movers; heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers; and nursing aides,
orderlies, and attendants. These occupations also had the greatest number of injuries and
illnesses, accounting for over 16 percent of the total days away from work cases (see
chart 1).
In 2004, injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work in the goods-
producing industries, such as construction and manufacturing, remained relatively the
same as the previous year with 408,400 cases, while injuries and illnesses in service
providing industries declined 6.3 percent to 850,930 (see table 1).
AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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