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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Cynthia Quetsch (573)
751-7500
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 19, 2006
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 23,390 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work in Missouri private industry in 2005. This number was essentially unchanged from the 24,000 cases in 2004.
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 7,760 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work in the goods-producing sectors, while the service providing sectors had 15,630 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work.
Women accounted for 29.4 percent of the nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases involving days away from work in 2005. Education and health services was the major industry sector in which women made up the largest percentage (88.2) of the nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases.
Workers who were 25 to 34 years old accounted for 26.6 percent of the total number of nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases with days away from work in 2005, while workers who were 35 to 44 years old made up 26.5 percent.
Workers with one to five years of service accounted for 31.2 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work in 2005. Workers with more than five years of service made up 30.8 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work.
White workers accounted for 65.8 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work in 2005.
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 40.7 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses
involving days away from work in 2005.
· The body part affected in 33.8 percent of all nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases was the trunk.
· Floors, walkways, ground surfaces was the source of injury or illness in 18.5 percent of all nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving
days away from work in 2005.
· Contact with objects and equipment accounted for 26.8 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 33.9 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work.
· Workers on the job from two to four hours made up 20.4 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses with days away from work.
· Nearly 22.0 percent of the nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from occurred on Tuesday in 2005.
For more information regarding this survey, please visit www.dolir.mo.gov/lmi/index.htm or www.bls.gov/iif.
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