Immediate Inpatient Hospitalizations for Work-Related Injury or Illness – Washington State, 2015

Details

• Personal Author:
  Anderson NJ ; Bonauto DK ; Wuellner SE
• Description:
  Work-related injuries that result in an immediate inpatient hospitalization are severe, costly, and often lead to long term disability. Currently, both the Washington State Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) and the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) require employers to report workplace injuries resulting in inpatient hospitalizations (within 8 or 24 hours of injury, respectively). This report is the second in an annual series that characterizes the results of a unique surveillance system in Washington State created by linking hospital discharge data from Washington's Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System (CHARS) to Washington State workers' compensation (WC) records to identify immediate inpatient hospitalizations. For additional information, please see the initial report (2014 data), which describes the creation of this surveillance system and provides more detailed methods. The immediate inpatient work-related hospitalization surveillance system provides descriptive data regarding high risk industries, and results can be used to inform prevention efforts, to monitor trends over time, and to evaluate employer compliance with reporting regulations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Injuries Occupational Safety And Health Surveillance Surveillance Programs 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:
  1-24
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059143
• Citation:
  Olympia, WA: Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, Technical Report 96-06-2018, 2018 Jul; :1-24
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Performing Organization:
  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Immediate inpatient hospitalizations for work-related injury or illness - Washington State, 2015
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c5bedb08252b26812ab805052d04a3c37dda85623af605578efe1ffbedcfa8ab61e9eeccc99fb42a83fbdde7fede11157cd2db4ce2f609c7c8f77e75655731c4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/223453/cdc_223453_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.79 MB ]