Days-away-from-work cases

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Days-away-from-work cases, which may also involve restricted workdays, are a subset of lost workday cases, which include days-away-from-work cases and cases involving restricted work activity only (Bureau of Labor Statistics 1997,72). 

For many years, the BLS has issued reports titled Lost-Worktime Injuries and Illnesses Characteristics and Resulting Time Away From Work. The data in Tables 1 and 2 here were taken from Table 10 in the BLS 1995 and 2005 reports. Table 10 records the Percent distribution of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work. It shows the percents of selected days-away-from-work categories as each category relates to the total number of days-away-from-work cases reported in a given year. 

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Table 2 shows the percent of days-away-from-work cases involving 31 or more days away from work for 2001, 2002 and 2003 as in the BLS reports and as projected by Hosking assuming no change had been made in the reporting ruled. For 2002 the projection for lost workday cases with 31 or more days away from work is 23.4%. In the BLS report for 2002 the recording is 25.1%. For 2003 the projection is 25.0%. The corresponding number in the BLS report on 2003 data is 26.2%. 

It cannot be concluded from the BLS data that the number of incidents resulting in severity has increased. The data do indicate that incidents resulting in severity are a larger segment of all days-away-from-work cases reported. 

How significant are ergonomics-related incidents within the universe of workplace injuries and illnesses On November 9,2011, as is done annually, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued a bulletin titled Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Requiring Days Away from Work, 2010. Keep in mind that statistics in the report pertain only to days-away-from-work cases. 

Days-away-from-work cases include those that resulted in days away from work, some of which also included job transfer or restriction. 

Industry OSHA incident rate (cases involving days away from work and deaths) FAR (deaths) ... 

The recent Burden of Skin Disease study, a joint project of the American Academy of Dermatology Association and the Society of Investigative Dermatology, found that the third most common skin ailment was contact dermatitis. According to this study, 72 million Americans had contact dermatitis in 2004 which resulted in 1.4 billion in direct costs and almost 500 million in indirect costs due to lost productivity.83 A review of 1993 BLS data showed that of 60,200 cases of occupational skin diseases, 12,613 (21%) resulted in one or more days away from work.70 The mean time away from work was 3 days, but 17% lost workday cases had over 11 days away from work. Of those with days away from work, 70% had a diagnosis of dermatitis. In 2001, of the 38,900 skin disease cases, 6,051 (16%) resulted in days away from work, with a median of 3 days lost.68 Of these, 78% had dermatitis. A study of 235 Canadian workers with oc-... 

The 1993 Annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 110 cases of dermatitis attributed to calcium hydroxide (and other calcium oxides) exposure the skin disorders resulted in a median of 9 days away from work, with 27% having more than 20 days away from work. ... 

Table 4 in the BLS report is titled Number of Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Involving Days Away from Work by Selected Injury or Illness Characteristics and Industry Division, 2000. Lor private industry as a whole, strains and sprains, carpal tunnel syndrome, and tendonitis were 46.3% of total cases. Similar figures are commonly expressed. Lor example. Dr. Lranklin Mirer, Director of the UAW Health and Safety Department, says that for about 700,000 auto workers, over 50% of all incidents reported are musculoskeletal. And the costs for musculoskeletal injuries tend to ran high, especially for serious back injuries. 

In 2010, in the United States, some 4,690 employees were killed in accidents while at their workplaces carrying out their normal duties. In the same year, nearly 3.1 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses were reported among private industry employers, resulting in an incidence rate of 3.5 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers. According to the US. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2010), some 900,000 of these cases involved days away from work, more than 200,000 were as a result of falls, 185,000 were back injuries, and 370,000 sprains, strains, and tears were reported. 

Work-related vehicle crashes are often violent collisions, resulting in injuries requiring numerous days off from the job for recovery. In 2009, light or delivery service tnick drivers and tractor-trailer tmckers both experienced more than 20,000 injury cases requiring days away from work. 

Indemnity Case Rate, which is a negative metric providing the rate of all workers compensation cases that involve lost time payments per 100 full time employees per year. It may be indicative of the company s basic prevention and reduction efforts in minimizing more serious lost time case incidence and severity. It relates closely to OSHA s DART or rate of injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work, restricted work activity, and/or job transfer. According to Italian National Standards UNI 7249 (UNI 2007) further index rates are introduced, like incidence index of occurred accidents, defined as rate of occurred accidents per 1.000 workers, frequency index (rate of occurred accidents per 1.000.000 hours worked), severity index of accidents, which represents 1000 times total number of lost days per hours worked. 

For at least the past decade, truckers have consistently experienced the most injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work of any private-sector industry In 2012, there were a reported 64,700 cases among light and heavy duty truckers. 

Not only do truck drivers suffer the most nonfatal injuries and illnesses, they also had the highest median days away from work, at 14 days. Median days away from work — a measure of severity — designates the point at which half the cases involved more days and half involved fewer days. 

You can compute an occupational injury and illness incidence rate for all recordable cases or for cases that involved days away from work for your firm quickly and easily. The formula requires that you follow instructions in paragraph (a) below for the total recordable cases or those in paragraph (b) for cases that involved days away from work, and for both rates the instructions in paragraph (c). 

An acronym for Days Away, Restricted work activity, and/or job Transfer (DART) Case Incidence Rate and is defined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as the rate of recordable injuries and illness cases per 100 full-time employees resulting in days away from work, restricted work activity, and/or job transfer that a site has experienced in a given time frame. Restricted cases are defined as any occupational injury or illness that results in the limitation of employees ability to do their job (i.e., no lifting, climbing, etc.) or being transferred to another job (restricted days). The annual DART rate is calculated according to the following formula ... 

Cases that involve days away from work or days of restricted work activity, or both. Louflness... 

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordable cases, which include work-related injuries and illnesses that result in one or more of the following death, loss of consciousness, days away from work, restricted work activity or job transfer, medical treatment (beyond first aid), significant work-related injuries or illnesses that are diagnosed by a physician or other licensed heath care professional (these include any work-related case involving cancer, chronic irreversible disease, a fracture or cracked bone, or a punctured eardrum) additional criteria include any needle-stick injury or cut from a sharp object that is contaminated with another person s blood or other potentially infectious material, any case requiring an employee to be medically removed under the requirements of an OSHA health standard, and tuberculosis infection as evidenced by a positive skin test or diagnosis by a physician or other licensed health care professional after exposure to a known case of active tuberculosis. 

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Total Recordable Rate (sometimes referred to as Total Recordable Incident Rate [TRIR]) using the number of OSHA recordable injury and illness cases. The TRC is the total of all recordable injury and illness cases. This includes cases that involve days away from work, job transfer or restriction, and other recordable cases from the OSHA s Form 300 multiplied by 200,000 and then divided by the number of employee hours worked. 

In calculating the days away from work and restricted work days, OSHA counts calendar days. The total number of days includes weekend days, holidays, vacation days, or other days off if the employee did not work on those days. OSHA sets the maximum number of days for a case at 180 days. 

OSHA and BLS also compute the incident rate for cases classified as death, cases resulting in days away from work and cases involving restricted job duties or a job transfer. This is the DART incident rate. The acronym derives from letters from the three categories. 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does some analysis based on the median number of days away from work for cases involving days away from work. One study showed the differences among age groups in median mrmber of days away from work. ... 

Example 8-2 Suppose a mining company had several recordable cases that produced a total of 95 days away from work and restricted work. Some 389,295 hours were worked at the mine. The severity measme is then... 

Ratio data is continuous data that does not have zero as an arbitrary placeholder. The zero on this scale represents an actual absence of that characteristic. For example, zero accidents recorded for a period of time means no accident cases existed. Ratio data is the only scale in which magnitude between values on the scale exists. If one group had 10 accidents and the other five, then it is correct to say that the first group had twice as many accidents as the second. Examples of ratio data that the safety professional would use include any characteristics that are counted, such as the number of accidents, the number of days away from work, etc. 

Summary data on nonfatal injuries and illnesses are released first that identify the number and rate of injuries and illnesses by industry. After more analysis is completed, case and demographic data provide additional details on the worker injured, the nature of the disabling condition, and the event and source producing that condition for those cases that involve one or more days away from work. Fatality data provides information on 28 separate data elements including information on the worker, the fatal incident, and the machinery or equipment involved. 

The number of non-fatal cases without days away from work or restricted workdays. 

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