What Percentage of Workers with Work-Related Illnesses Receive Workers’ Compensation Benefits?

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• Personal Author:
  Biddle J ; Roberts K ; Rosenman, Kenneth D. ; Welch EM
• Description:
  This study estimates the rate at which workers suffering from occupational illnesses file for workers' compensation lost wage benefits and identifies some of the factors that affect the probability that a worker with an occupational illness will file. A database of reports of known or suspected cases of occupational illness is matched with workers' compensation claims data. Overall, between 9% and 45% of reported workers file for benefits. Data limitations prevent a more precise estimate of this rate, but a large proportion of workers with occupational illnesses clearly does not utilize the worker's compensation system. Logit analysis of a choice-based sample shows that women and employees of small firms are more likely than others to file for worker's compensation and that filing rates vary considerably across industries and diagnostic categories. Acute conditions related to the current job are no more likely to lead to claims than chronic conditions with long latency periods between exposure and development of disease. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Chronic Disease Demography Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Sex Characteristics Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Chronic-degenerative-diseases Demographic-characteristics Occupational-diseases Occupational-exposure Occupational-health-programs Sex-factors Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs Worker-health Workers
• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  325-331
• Volume:
  40
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024691
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 1998 Apr; 40(4):325-331
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Health Services Research
• Performing Organization:
  Michigan State University, Department of Medicine, East Lansing, Michigan
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19950930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  19990929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a5ec65b396a14cdd84959b95992ef029fc6789cb391189b356f595c6424ef21724f207d7172fe90c461e0a1b69b36b988b0c32025ad060673dfcb099ce441f1a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196357/cdc_196357_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.35 MB ]