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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 26, 2007
Missouri Workplace Injury and Illness Case and Demographic Data Released
Jefferson City, MO - The most serious nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases involve lost work time, according to the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. There were 21,310 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work in Missouri private industry in 2006. This number was not significantly changed from the 2005 cases.
The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses is an annual survey administered by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics in collaboration with the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations’ Research and Analysis Section. Occupational injury and illness data are collected from approximately 5,400 Missouri employers each year.
The survey reported 6,480 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work in the total goods-producing sectors, while the service-providing sectors had 14,830 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work.
Women accounted for 28.8 percent of the nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases involving days away from work in 2006. Education and health services was the only major industry sector in which women made up the largest percentage (81.4) of the nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases.
Workers who were 45 to 54 years old accounted for 27.5 percent of the total number of nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases with days away from work in 2006, while workers who were 35 to 44 years old made up 23.5 percent.
Workers with one to five years of service accounted for 32.6 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work in 2006. Workers with more than five years of service made up 31.7 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work.
Four characteristics are used to describe the event that caused an occupational injury or illness – nature of injury or illness, part of body affected, source of injury or illness, and event or exposure:
· Sprains, strains was the nature (physical characteristics) of the injury or illness in 34.1 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work in 2006.
· The body part affected in 29.2 percent of all nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases was the trunk.
· Floors, walkways, ground surfaces were the sources of injury or illness in 25.1 percent of all nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work in 2006.
· Contact with objects and equipment accounted for 27.5 percent of all events or exposures of injuries or illnesses. Additional characteristics describing the injury and illness data are time of event, hours on the job before event occurred, and day of week:
· The hours from 8:01 a.m. to 12:00 noon accounted for 36.6 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work.
· Workers on the job from two hours to less than four hours made up 19.5 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work.
· 23.1 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work occurred on Tuesday in 2006.
For more information regarding this survey, please visit www.dolir.mo.gov/lmi/index.htm or www.bls.gov/iif.
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