Surveillance of Amputations Among Washington State Workers, 2016–2021: Technical Report of Expanded Surveillance System Methods and Results

Details

• Personal Author:
  Todorov D ; Wuellner S
• Description:
  Amputations are a serious workplace injury that continue to happen in Washington workplaces. Public health surveillance provides data necessary to inform policies and programs designed to prevent work related amputations. Data sources typically used for occupational injury surveillance, like the Bureau of Labor Statistics Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, often provide limited information on specific injuries. Workers' compensation claims data offer a more extensive understanding of work related amputations than most other data sources for three reasons. First, the data are independent of employer reporting, as claims are initiated by injured workers. Second, transactional administrative data allow for the capture of amputations that occur not at the time of injury but days, weeks, or months after, as part of medical care. Third, incident, injury, worker, and employer characteristics captured in workers' compensation data exceed the detail available in most other data sources. This technical report describes a surveillance system for work-related amputations using Washington State workers compensation data, and summarizes the worker, injury, and employer characteristics of amputations occurring between 2016 and 2021.These data can augment employer-reported data to better target, develop, and evaluate effective prevention efforts. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Amputations Author Keywords: SHARP Occupational Accidents Public Health Surveillance Traumatic Injuries Washington Workers Compensation Workers Compensation
• Publisher:
  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• 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:
  1-30
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20068617
• Citation:
  Olympia, WA: Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, 80-21-2023, 2023 Feb; :1-30
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Performing Organization:
  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Surveillance of amputations among Washington State workers, 2016-2021: technical report of expanded surveillance system methods and results
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e704690e36700bd5fcd9352134e2cd4324599aeb0847785061cc958ba8e2b045d805ffdb8b321594b3b1229faf2934269cbee1b61f6194571539c63094bebfc5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207219/cdc_207219_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.09 MB ]