Injury Facts, 2000 Edition

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. 

Injury Facts, 2000 Edition. Itasca, IL National Safety Council, 2000. 

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. 

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