Injury Facts

Baker, S.P. The Injury Fact Book. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, New York, 1992. 

Injury Facts, 1999 ed. (Chicago National Safety Council, 1999), p. 151 2OSHA regulations, 29 CFR 1904.12. 

Source Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cutaneous Radiation Injury Fact Sheet for Physicians. June 29, 2005 http //www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/ criphysicianfactsheet.asp... 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Injury Fact Book 2001-2002. Atlanta, CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2001. 

National Safety Council, Injury Facts 2004 Edition, Itasca, IL, 2004. 

According to the NSC, the economic impact of fatal and nonfatal unintentional injuries amounted to 693.5 billion in 2009. This is equivalent to about 2,300 per capita, or about 5,900 per household. These are costs that every individual and household pays whether directly out of pocket, through higher prices for goods and services, or through higher taxes. Approximately 35,000,000 hours are lost in a typical year as a result of accidents. (National Safety Council, Injury and Death Statistics, Injury Facts, 2009)... 

Injury and Death Statistics, Injury Facts, 2009. Accessed NEED DATE from www. nsc.org. 

Table 7.2 shows data taken from the National Safety Council publication Injury Facts, 2000 Edition (p. 44). What s the point of all this Fatal accident experience in the work world has changed substantially since Heinrich s studies were made. In the National Safety Council publication, 1933 is the first year for which a death rate per 100,000 workers is shown. 

Table 7.2. Data from injury facts, 2000edition — NSC...

Reliable data indicating trends for nonfatal injuries is virtually unattainable. Heinrich gives an estimate of 3,000,000 lost-time injuries annually in his first edition, without citing a source or defining the term lost time (Citation 2). In Injury Facts, 2000, disabling injuries for the year 1999 are shown as 3,800,000 (National Safety Council, p. 44). From 1933 to 1999, as shown in Table 7.2, there was a 245% increase in the number of workers. 

Now to get the discussion down to a more mundane subject, one in which most all safety practitioners participate — motor vehicle operation. According to Injury Facts, 2001 Edition, a National Safety Council publication, motor vehicle operation resulted in 43,000 fatalities in the United States in 2000, and 2,300,000 persons sustained disabling injuries (p. 82). Assume a U.S. population of 283,800,000 the probability of a resident, on average, being killed in an auto accident in 2000 was 1 in 6600. The probability of sustaining a disabling injury was 1 in 123. 

Injury Facts, 2001 Edition. IXa cdi, IL National Safety Council, 2001. www.nsc.org. 

U.S. 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)... 

National Safety Council (NSC) For several decades, the National Safety Council (NSC) has compiled data on accidents, incidents, injuries, illnesses, and deaths. An annual publication provided detailed analysis of the data. For many years the publication title was Accident Facts. More recently, the title is Injury Facts. This publication breaks down data and analysis into three groups occupational, motor vehicle, and home and community. Also the publication now reports information on intentional injuries, such as assaults and self-harm. Data come from a variety of sources. 

Injury Facts, 2014 Edition, National Safety Council, Itasca, IL. Available at www.nsc.org/news resources/injury and death statistics/Documents/InjuryFactsHighlights.pdf... 

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Healthy People 2010 Objectives from the US. Deparunent of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has made the facts available relevant to occupational injuries and illnesses. Every five seconds a worker is injured. Every ten seconds a worker is temporarily or permanently disabled. Each day, an average of 137 persons die from work-related diseases, and an additional 17 die from workplace injuries on the job. Each year, about 70 youths under 18 years of age die from injuries at work and 70,000 require treatment in a hospital anergency room. In 1996, an estimated 11,000 workers were disabled each day due to work-related injuries. That same year, the National Safety Council estimated that on-the-job injuries cost society 121 billion, including lost wages, lost productivity, administrative expenses, health care, and other costs (National Safety Council Injury Facts, 2010). A study published in Jnly 1997 reports that the 1992 combined U.S. economic burden for occupational illnesses and injuries was an estimated 171 billion (U.S. Department of Conunerce, www.commerce.gov, 2001). 

Data from the National Safety Council (NSC) for 2008 indicates that the costs of work-related injuries and deaths were 183.0 billion. Wage and productivity loss accounted for 88.4 billion, medical cost for 38.3 billion, and employer cost equaled 12.7 billion. The average cost of a workplace death was put at 1,310,000 and a disabling injury cost at 48,000. A look at other injury costs provided by the National Safety Council indicates that a reasonable, serious, non-disabling injury would have an average cost of 22,674 (2006-2007) (NSC Injury Fact, 2010). 

This extract appears in the National Safety Council s Injury Facts, 2003 Edition ... 

National Safety Council (2006a) Injury Facts 2005-2006 edition. National Safety Council, Itasca National Safety Council (2006b) The off-the-job safety program nranual, 2nd edn. National Safety Council, Itasca... 

According to the National Safety Council s Injury Facts in 2008 some 26 million accidental injuries were experienced during that year. This all inclusive figure includes work-related, recreational, and home injuries. Using the Bird ratio, this converts to at least 7 billion near miss incidents or warnings that may have preceded these actual injuries. 

National Safety Council. 2010. Summary from Injury Eacts, 2010 ed. Itasca, IL NSC. Online at http //www.nsc.org/search/results.aspx k=injury facts... 

U.S. National Safety Council. 2013. Injury Facts. Itasca, IL National Safety Council, http // www.mhi.org/downloads/industrygroups/ease/technicalpapers/2013-National-Safety-Council-Injury-Facts.pdf, downloaded March 21, 2014. 

The National Safety Council http //www.nsc.org/ (accessed September 14, 2010) compiles and publishes statistics and reports, including Injury Facts that compiles annual data on fatal and nonfatal unintentional injuries, including those on streets and highways. Published since 1927, it was previously known as Accident Facts. Available in hard copy and on CD. 

Baker, Susan, O Neill, Brian, Ginsburg, Marvin J., and Li, Guohua. The injury fact book, Oxford University Press, 1992. 

Schneid, Thomas D. and Schuman, Michael S. Legal liability. Aspen Publishers, 1997. National Safety Council 2008, Injury Facts, Itasca, IL. 2008. 

Center, NSCIS. 2004. Spinal cord injury Fact and figures at a glance. J Spinal Cord Med 27(2). 

Baker, S.E, B. O Neil, M.J. Ginsburg, and G. Li. Injury Fact Book. New York, NY Oxford University Press, 1992. 

Motor vehicle accident statistics have been collected and published by various organizations and are made available to motor fleet safety directors. One of the better sources available on the market is Injury Facts (formerly titled Accident Facts ) The National Safety Council publishes this book, and it contains a tremendous amount of useful statistics and information. It even breaks down the incidents by type of vehicle, work zones, states, and so forth. 

National Safety Council statisticians have created a comprehensive system for tracking and compiling injury and illness data, including annual publication of the aforementioned Injury Facts, an authoritative compendium of safety and health statistics. Council researchers also produce the Journal of Safety Research, an international, interdisciplinary scientific quarterly that contains research articles written by experts in all fields. The council s Environmental Health Center, based in Washington, D.C., is a leading provider of credible and timely information and community-based programs on environmental and public health issues. 

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