Worker Health Chartbook 2004

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1		Figure 1-38 Distribution of occupational injury and illness cases with days away from work in private industry by body part affected, 2001. The back was involved in nearly a fourth of all occupational injuries and illnesses. Conditions involving the upper and lower extremities each accounted for more than one-fifth of the cases. (Source: BLS [2003c].)
2		Figure 1-39 Median days away from work due to occupational injuries or illnesses in private industry by body part affected, 2001. Workers with injuries and illnesses to the abdomen and to the wrist had the highest median number of days away from work-17 and 13 days, respectively. The median number of days away from work was 6 for all cases in 2001. (Source: BLS [2003c].)
3		Figure 2-36 Distribution and number of MSD cases involving days away from work in private industry by nature of injury or illness, 2001. Sprains and strains accounted for 399,772 cases or 76.5% of the 522,528 musculoskeletal disorders involving days away from work in 2001. (Source: BLS [2003d].)
4		Figure 2-89 Number of back injury cases involving days away from work in private industry, 1992-2001. The annual number of back injury cases involving days away from work declined 43% during this 10-year period-from 653,385 cases in 1992 to 372,683 in 2001. (Sources: BLS [2003a,b].)
5		Figure 2-90 Annual rates of back injury cases involving days away from work in private industry, 1992-2001. The annual rate of back injury cases involving days away from work declined 52% during this 10-year period-from 85.4 per 10,000 full-time workers in 1992 to 41.0 in 2001. (Sources: BLS [2003a,b].)
6		Figure 2-91 Distribution of back injury cases and all nonfatal injury and illness cases involving days away from work in private industry by age, 2001. Age data are available for 369,351 of the 372,683 BLS-estimated back injury cases involving days away from work in 2001. Overall, three age groups (25-34, 35-44, and 45-54) accounted for 78.5% of back injury cases, slightly more than the 75.2% reported for all nonfatal injury and illness cases. (Source: BLS [2003a].)
7		Figure 2-92 Distribution of back injury cases and all nonfatal injury and illness cases involving days away from work in private industry by sex, 2001. Male workers accounted for 64.3% of back injury cases in 2001, slightly less than the 66.1% reported for all nonfatal injury and illness cases. Female workers accounted for a slightly greater percentage of back injury cases (35.7%) than all nonfatal injury and illness cases (33.9%). (Source: BLS [2003a].)
8		Figure 2-93 Distribution of back injury cases and all nonfatal injury and illness cases involving days away from work in private industry by race/ethnicity, 2001. Race/ethnicity data are available for 269,108 of the 372,683 BLS-estimated back injury cases involving days away from work in 2001. Relatively small race/ethnicity differences existed between back injury cases and all nonfatal injury and illness cases in 2001. White, non-Hispanic workers accounted for 69.5% of back injury cases and 68.2% of all nonfatal injury and illness cases. Black, non-Hispanic workers accounted for 12.1% of back injury cases, and Hispanic workers accounted for 15.7%. (Source: BLS [2003a].)
9		Figure 2-94 Distribution of back injury cases and all nonfatal injury and illness cases involving days away from work in private industry by days away from work, 2001. Back injury cases tended to involve higher percentages of short-term disability than all nonfatal injury and illness cases in 2001: 22.4% of workers with back injuries reported 3-5 days away from work, and 13.7% reported 6-10 days away from work. Workers with back injuries had a median of 6 days away from work in 2001-as did workers with all nonfatal injuries and illnesses. (Source: BLS [2003a].)
10		Figure 2-95 Distribution of back injury cases and all nonfatal injury and illness cases involving days away from work in private industry by occupation, 2001. Two occupational groups (operators, fabricators, and laborers and service workers) accounted for 58.0% of all back injury cases in 2001 and 56.9% of all nonfatal injury and illness cases. (Source: BLS [2003a].)
11		Figure 2-96 Incidence rate of back injury cases involving days away from work in private industry by industry sector, 2001. In 2001, back injury incidence rates exceeding the private-sector rate (41.0 per 10,000 full-time workers) were reported for transportation and public utilities (77.1 per 10,000 full-time workers or 50,765 cases), construction (63.9 per 10,000 full-time workers or 38,973 cases), agriculture, forestry, and fishing (58.8 per 10,000 full-time workers or 8,830 cases), and wholesale trade (47.3 per 10,000 full-time workers or 30,421 cases). (Source: BLS [2003a].)
12		Figure 2-97 Annual rates of back injury cases involving days away from work by private industry sector, 1992-2001. The annual rate for back injuries involving days away from work declined 52% during 1992-2001, and similar reductions occurred in each of the major industry sectors. Two industry sectors (transportation and public utilities and construction) had consistently higher rates than other industry sectors during this 10-year period and experienced 36.1% and 52.7% rate reductions, respectively. (Sources: BLS [2003a,b].)

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