Homes More Dangerous Than Workplaces

Due to the tremendous pressure placed on workers to be injury-free, a number of workplace injuries are never reported but are disguised to reappear as home or sport-related injuries. Why else in the United States would there be three home injuries for every one injury recorded in the workplace  

workers are safer on the job than in their homes and conunnnities. Home and communities deaths are np 75 percent. According to the National Safety Council 2011 Injury Facts, for every worker killed on the job, approximately 15 workers are killed off the job. Nearly three times as many workers suffer nonfatal injuries off the job as on the job. (NSC, 2012b) 

In 2009 it is estimated that there were 90,300 home and community-related unintentional injury deaths in the United States. An additional 30.5 million people suffered nonfatal medically consulted injuries due to home and community-related incidents. 

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