December 28, 1999 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Eighth consecutive drop in incidence of days away from work due to workplace injuries and illnesses
In 1998, the incidence rate for cases of
on-the-job injuries and illnesses involving days away from work was 2.0
cases per 100 full-time workers, down slightly from 2.1 in 1997. The drop
marked the eighth year in a row that this incidence rate fell.
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The incidence rate of cases with days away from work was 3.4 cases per
100 full-time workers in 1990, so the rate has dropped by 41 percent in
eight years. The rate for 1998 was the lowest on record.
Note that most cases of occupational injuries and illnesses in 1998 did
not involve days away from work. Of the 5.9 million cases of workplace
injuries and
illnesses last year, 1.7 million involved one or more days away from work.
The BLS Safety
and Health Statistics Program
produced these data. The figures in this article pertain to injuries and
illnesses in private industry workplaces. Find more information on occupational injuries and
illnesses in 1998 in Workplace
Injuries and Illnesses in 1998,
news release USDL 99-358.
Of interest
Spotlight on Statistics: National Hispanic Heritage Month
In this Spotlight, we take a look at the Hispanic labor force—including labor force participation, employment and unemployment, educational attainment, geographic location, country of birth, earnings, consumer expenditures, time use, workplace injuries, and employment projections.
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