Workers’ Memorial Day – April 28, 2008

Details

• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Workers' Memorial Day, observed each year on April 28, was established to recognize workers who died or were injured on the job. In 2006, 5,840 workers in the United States died from injuries sustained at work; an estimated 49,000 annual deaths have been attributed to work-related diseases. In 2006, an estimated 4.1 million private-sector workers had a nonfatal work-related injury or illness; approximately half of these workers required a job transfer, work restrictions, or time away from their jobs. An estimated 3.4 million workers were treated in emergency departments in 2004 because of occupational injuries, and approximately 80,000 were hospitalized. In 2005, workers' compensation costs for employers totaled an estimated $89 billion. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mortality Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety
• Keywords:
  Workers; Mortality-data; Occupational-accidents; Occupational-diseases; Statistical-analysis; Lost-work-days; Disabled-workers; Injuries; Occupations; Surveillance
• Source:
  MMWR 2008 Apr; 57(16):426
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research ; OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  57
• Issue:
  16
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20033710
• Citation:
  MMWR 2008 Apr; 57(16):426
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5d9d4664299ed9934d7ab26d6fd6cf69b655b72480b7d2faf19530583f4e04e823fae11c8de366188a457e50509848bdd6c373767699bb580256a0417ad349bf
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/183335/cdc_183335_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 53.90 KB ]