The Complicated Pig Speaks: A Reply to Gore and Brown and Tinsley

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• Personal Author:
  Wrona RM
• Description:
  Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a public health problem but little is known about the nature of that problem in the working population. The author used a national definition to identify cases in Washington State from workers' compensation (WC) hospital billing data, quantified the cost of WC insurance benefits using actuarial cost estimates, and identified high risk industries using ANSI Z16.2 typology. There were 928 cases of TBI with a lifetime claim cost of $159 million from the Washington State Fund (1994-2001). Sixty percent of injuries resulted in death or disability. The highest risks of TBI are concentrated in 16 industrial insurance risk classes and the highest costs in 19 North American Industry Classification codes. Injury scenarios were identified for nine industrial insurance risk classes. TBI is a disabling and costly workplace injury in the state of Washington, affecting even teenagers and seniors who are not generally considered to be part of the workforce. Injury typology codes provide useful information for improving workplace safety. This research provides industry with quantitative information regarding the cost of work-related traumatic brain injury and the usefulness of using workers' compensation claims data to reduce the burden of workplace injury. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Demography Epidemiology Nervous System Nervous System Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Public Health Risk Assessment Safety
• Keywords:
  Brain-damage Demographic-characteristics Etiology Injuries Occupational-exposure Public-health Risk-analysis Statistical-analysis Traumatic-injuries Workers
• ISSN:
  0022-4375
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  75-81
• Volume:
  37
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030115
• Citation:
  J Safety Res 2006 Jan; 37(1):75-81
• Email:
  ronwrona@comcast.net
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Safety Research
• End Date:
  20060630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/190936/cdc_190936_DS1.pdf
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