Workers’ Memorial Day – April 28, 2016

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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, observed annually on April 28, recognizes workers who suffered or died because of exposures to hazards at work. In 2014, 4,679 U.S. workers died from work-related injuries. Although deaths from work-related injuries are captured by surveillance systems, most deaths from work-related illness are not. In 2007, an estimated 53,445 deaths from work-related illness occurred. In 2014, employers reported approximately 3 million nonfatal injuries and illnesses to private industry workers and 722,000 to state and local government workers; an estimated 2.7 million work-related injuries were treated in emergency departments, resulting in 113,000 hospitalizations (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CDC-NIOSH), unpublished data, 2016; * https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/surveillance/default.html.). Occupational injuries and illnesses also have economic costs. The societal cost of work-related fatalities, injuries, and illnesses was estimated at $250 billion in 2007 on the basis of methods that focus on medical costs and productivity losses. New estimates of worker hearing impairment from the CDC-NIOSH Occupational Hearing Loss Surveillance program are reported in this issue of MMWR. The audiometric data analyzed in this report represent one example of existing health data that CDC-NIOSH uses for occupational health surveillance. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Delivery Of Health Care Economics Emergency Responders Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced Morbidity Mortality Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Disabled-workers Disease-prevention Diseases Economic Analysis Economic Impact Emergency-treatment Health-care Injuries Injury-prevention Lost-work-days Medical Care Medical Treatment Morbidity-rates Mortality-data Mortality-rates Noise Induced Hearing Loss Occupational-accidents Occupational-diseases Occupational Hazards Occupational Hearing Loss Occupations Socioeconomics Statistical-analysis Surveillance Surveillance Programs Traumatic-injuries Work Environment 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:
  65
• Issue:
  15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047889
• Citation:
  MMWR 2016 Apr; 65(15):389
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• 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/183343/cdc_183343_DS1.pdf
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