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Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses – 2020
For release 10:00 (EST) Thursday, November 9, 2017 USDL-17-1482 Technical information: (202) 691-6170 Media contact: (202) 691-5902 Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries AND Illnesses 2016 There were approximately million nonfatal Workplace Injuries and Illnesses reported by private industry employers in 2016, which occurred at a rate of cases per 100 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See and ) Private industry employers reported nearly 48,500 fewer nonfatal injury and illness cases in 2016 compared to a year earlier, according to estimates from the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII). Chart 1. Nonfatal occupational injury and illness incidence rates by case type, private industry, 2003-16 The 2016 rate of total recordable cases (TRC) fell cases per 100 FTE workers to continue a pattern of declines that, apart from 2012, occurred annually since 2004.
Occupational injuries and illnesses collected in the 2020 SOII include cases of COVID -19 when a worker was infected as a result of performing their work -related duties and met other recordkeeping criteria. COVID- 19 is considered a respiratory illness under criteria established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
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