Workers' Memorial Day – April 28, 2012

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Workers Memorial Day recognizes those workers who have died or sustained work-related injuries or illnesses. In 2010, a total of 4,547 U.S. workers died from occupational injuries (1), and each year, approximately 49,000 deaths are attributed to work-related illnesses (2). For 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that approximately 3.1 million workers in private industry and 820,000 in state and local government had a nonfatal occupational injury or illness (3). In 2010, an estimated 2.7 million workers were treated in emergency departments for occupational injuries and illnesses, and approximately 110,000 were hospitalized (CDC, unpublished data, 2012). Economists are working to calculate the costs associated with occupational injuries and illnesses in the United States. Recent research estimates the cost of fatal injuries at $6 billion and the cost of fatal illnesses at $46 billion. Nonfatal injuries and illnesses are estimated to cost $186 billion and $12 billion annually (4). 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 Mortality-rates 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:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  61
• Issue:
  16
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040696
• Citation:
  MMWR 2012 Apr; 61(16):281
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/183339/cdc_183339_DS1.pdf
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