Workers' Memorial Day – April 28, 2010

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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 2008, a total of 5,071 U.S. workers died from occupational injuries, and 49,000 deaths annually are attributed to work-related illnesses. In 2008, an estimated 3.7 million workers in private industry and 940,000 in state and local government had a nonfatal occupational injury or illness; 40%-50% of these workers were transferred, placed on work restrictions, or took time away from work. An estimated 3.4 million workers were treated in emergency departments for occupational injuries and illnesses in 2007, and approximately 94,000 were hospitalized (CDC, unpublished data, 2010). Work-related injuries and deaths are costly. Employers and insurers spent nearly $85 billion on workers' compensation in 2007. Those expenditures are only a portion of the costs borne by employers, workers, and society overall, including costs paid by other insurance systems and most of the 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:
  Emergency Responders Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Morbidity Mortality Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Disabled-workers Disease-prevention Diseases Emergency-treatment Health-care Health-care-facilities Injuries Injury-prevention Lost-work-days Morbidity-rates Mortality-data Occupational-accidents Occupational-diseases Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs Occupations Statistical-analysis Traumatic-injuries Worker-health 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:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  59
• Issue:
  15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20036710
• Citation:
  MMWR 2010 Apr; 59(15):449
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/183337/cdc_183337_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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