Workers’ Memorial Day – April 28, 2009

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Workers' Memorial Day recognizes those workers who died or sustained work-related injuries or illnesses during the previous year. In 2007, a total of 5,488 U.S. workers died from occupational injuries. Another 49,000 annual deaths are attributed to work-related diseases each year. In 2007, an estimated 4.0 million private-sector workers had a nonfatal occupational injury or illness; approximately half of them were transferred, restricted, or took time away from work. An estimated 3.4 million workers were treated in emergency departments in 2004 (the most recent data available) because of occupational injuries, and approximately 80,000 were hospitalized. Work-related injuries and illnesses are costly. In 2006, employers spent nearly $87.6 billion on workers' compensation, but this represents only a portion of total work-related injury and illness costs borne by employers, workers, and society overall, including cost-shifting to other insurance systems and most costs of work-related illness. Additional information on workplace safety and health is available from CDC at https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mortality Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Disabled-workers Disease-prevention Diseases Injuries Injury-prevention Lost-work-days Mortality-data Occupational-accidents Occupational-diseases Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs Occupations Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs Workers

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• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  58
• Issue:
  15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035566
• Citation:
  MMWR 2009 Apr; 58(15):389
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:18cb5d3bd8845d8d1a5c2132f115fb8b8174dd460165c34a9bae90b746fe7c04679c50b9665a3443ba5ff36a74ef28f6b9a09ce45cefaee7b27b23c2dc04d3e0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/183336/cdc_183336_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 68.39 KB ]