North Carolina Occupational Health Trends, 2010: Putting Data to Work

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• Personal Author:
  Dang G
• Description:
  INTRODUCTION: The workplace contains a variety of hazards that may affect people's health. Workers may be exposed to chemicals, dust, heavy machinery, heat, noise, biological agents and other conditions. During 2010, about 79,500 North Carolinians were injured or became ill while at work. Of these, 139 (0.1%) were fatal. Workplace injuries and illnesses have high human and economic costs to workers, employers, and to North Carolina. In 2010, workers' compensation claims alone in North Carolina cost more than $1.3 billion, with more than $360 on average paid per covered worker. Work-related injuries and illnesses can be prevented, and successful approaches toward making workplaces safer begin with having data to better understand the health status of the worker population. METHODS: This report uses the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Occupational Health Indicators (OHI) to track work-related injuries and illnesses in North Carolina. The indicators are a set of standardized measures that allow states to uniformly collect data from easily obtainable, statewide and national sources on occupational injury and illness. In this report, we present a basic description of worker demographics in North Carolina and 12 occupational health indicators for 2010. Descriptive statistics were used and include counts, rates and percentages. Counts for numerators were derived from available state and national databases, and counts for denominators were derived from state census estimates (see Discussion section for more details). Rates were calculated per annual number of fulltime-equivalent workers (FTEs), per annual number of all employed persons aged 16 years and older, or per annual number of residents for conditions where the workplace is presumed to be the most likely source of exposure. Comparisons to national data were done where possible to highlight potential problem areas impacting North Carolina for focus of further investigations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Injuries Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Programs Public Health Surveillance Worker Health Workers Compensation
• Publisher:
  North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-14
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20061682
• Citation:
  Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, 2013 Nov; :1-14
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20100701
• Source Full Name:
  North Carolina occupational health trends, 2010: putting data to work
• End Date:
  20150630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/225131/cdc_225131_DS1.pdf
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