Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Tweet[IWS] BLS: NONFATAL INJURIES AND ILLNESSES AMONG STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT WORKERS [25 March 2014]
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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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Spotlight on Statistics
NONFATAL INJURIES AND ILLNESSES AMONG STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT WORKERS [25 March 2014]
by Shannon M. Maloney
http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2014/soii-gov-workers/home.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2014/soii-gov-workers/pdf/soii-gov-workers.pdf
[full-text, 12 pages]
The scope of the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses was expanded with the 2008 survey to cover a more
complete section of the U.S. economy: state and local government workers. Prior to the publication of the 2008
survey results, data users commonly requested information about industries in the public sector. Estimates covering
nearly 18.5 million state and local government workers show that these public sector employees experienced a higher
incidence rate of work-related injuries and illnesses than their private industry counterparts.This Spotlight on
Statistics compares characteristics of injury and illness cases in state and local government with those in private
industry, highlighting incidence rate trends in selected state and local government industries and examining injury
and illness rates and cases that occurred in state and local government workplaces in 2011.
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