Using workers' compensation data for surveillance of occupational injuries and illnesses - Ohio, 2005-2009.

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• Personal Author:
  Bell J ; Bertke S ; Lampl ; M ; Meyers A ; Robbins D ; Wurzelbacher, Steven J.
• Description:
  The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (OBWC) is the largest of four, exclusive, state-run workers' compensation (WC) systems in the United States. All public Ohio employers and private employers (except sole proprietorships or partnerships) with less than 500 employees must purchase WC insurance from the state of Ohio. Other private employers have the option to self-insure for WC insurance. OBWC provides WC insurance for approximately two-thirds of Ohio workers but a lower proportion of Wholesale and Retail Trade (WRT) industry sector workers. One long-term goal of a partnership between OBWC and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is to develop an occupational illness and injury surveillance system by joining OBWC's WC data with denominator data (number of employees) from another state agency. To demonstrate the new system NIOSH generated incidence rates for OBWC WC outcomes, especially for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), for singlelocation employers in the Wholesale and Retail Trade Sectors and described sub-sector trends for 2005-2009. MSDs caused by ergonomic hazards are common among workers and result in pain, disability, and substantial cost to workers and employers (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2011; Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, 2011). Based on data from the 2010 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), a disproportionately higher rate of MSDs resulting in lost workdays occurs in the WRT industry sector compared with other industry sectors (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2011).
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Chlorine Compounds Hazardous Substances Hydrocarbons Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Solvents
• Keywords:
  Accidents Hazards Health-care Health-protection Humans Injuries Men Preventive-medicine Risk-factors Surveillance-programs Traumatic-injuries Women Work-environment Workers

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• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  117-120
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042651
• Citation:
  Use of workers' compensation data for occupational safety and health: proceedings from June 2012 workshop. Utterback DF, Schnorr TM, eds. Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2013-147, 2013 May; :117-120
• Editor(s):
  Utterback DF ; Schnorr TM
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• NORA Priority Area:
  Wholesale and Retail Trade ; Public Safety ; Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181622/cdc_181622_DS1.pdf
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