Economic Burden of Occupational Fatal Injuries in the United States Based on the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2003–2010 (Dataset)

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• Personal Author:
  Biddle, Elyce A. ; Keane P
• Description:
  It is widely acknowledged that there are costs involved with fatal injury to workers. These costs cross numerous boundaries, and generally address the overall costs to victims and the affected groups, and to society as a whole. This represents a cause for concern to employers, worker groups, policy makers, medical personnel, economists and others interested in workplace safety and health. This broad-reaching burden can include social costs, organizational costs, familial and interpersonal group costs, as well as personal costs such as suffering and loss of companionship. The data in the accompanying tables focus on monetary costs of fatal occupational injury which largely consist of foregone wages, but also include the direct costs of medical care and the indirect costs of household production and certain ancillary measures. These data represent a continuation of prior research by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that attempted to delimit the economic consequences of workplace injury for earlier years. Interested parties should be aware that these data serve as a supplemental update to prior NIOSH publications which described the magnitude and circumstances of occupational injury deaths for earlier years. The current data build on this research, and the findings are compelling. Over the period studied, 2003-2010, the costs from these 42,380 premature deaths exceeded $44 billion, an amount greater than the reportable gross domestic product for some States. These findings inform the national will to reduce this severe toll on our nation's workers, institutions, communities, and the nation itself. Researchers and concerned parties within the occupational and public health professions, academia, organizations focusing on workplace safety, labor unions and the business community have all proven to be willing and avid users of this data, and have used this research to continue their efforts, in concert with continuing NIOSH research efforts, to reduce the great toll that injury imposes on our workers, workplaces, and Nation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Mortality Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accidents Information-retrieval-systems Injuries Mortality-data Mortality-rates Safety-research Sociological-factors Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs Traumatic-injuries Workers

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• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSD-1002-2017-0
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Dataset
• Genre:
  Surveillance Dataset
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050312
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Dataset SD-1002-2017-0, 2017 Aug; :dataset
• Contact Point Address:
  Daniel Hartley, Ed.D., NIOSH, Division of Safety Research, Analysis and Field Evaluations Branch, 1095 Willowdale Rd., Morgantown, WV 26505
• Email:
  dhartley@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Economic burden of occupational fatal injuries in the United States based on the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2003-2010
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7f6e07778c3d88ce7cab556d25673fb6b8a8f11a26c00c2edd9429b36538aa9c9754706e6532f43b7c62c6f4318600c09db56805fefa4b948992e09caaf885fe
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210718/cdc_210718_DS1.pdf
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