Workers’ Memorial Day – April 28, 2013

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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 workers who died or suffered from exposures to hazards at work. In 2011, a total of 4,069 U.S. workers died from work-related injuries. Most fatalities from work-related illness are not captured by national surveillance systems, but an estimate for 2007 was 53,445 deaths. Several national surveillance systems report new cases of nonfatal work-related injuries and illnesses, although no system captures all cases. In 2011, nearly 3 million injuries and illnesses to private industry workers and 821,000 to state and local government workers were reported by employers. In the same year, an estimated 2.9 million work-related injuries were treated in emergency departments, resulting in 150,000 hospitalizations (CDC, unpublished data, 2013). Based on methods that focus on medical costs and productivity losses, the societal cost of work-related fatalities, injuries, and illnesses was estimated at $250 billion in 2007. Methods that include consideration of pain and suffering would result in a higher estimated societal cost. CDC is working to better describe the burden of fatalities, injuries, and illnesses suffered by workers; additional information is available at https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/programs/econ/risks.html. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergency Responders Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Morbidity Mortality Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Staff Development

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• Keywords:
  Disabled-workers Disease-prevention Diseases Emergency-treatment Exposure-levels Hazards 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 Risk-factors 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:
  62
• Issue:
  16
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042500
• Citation:
  MMWR 2013 Apr; 62(16):301
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/183340/cdc_183340_DS1.pdf
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