Research Notes U.S. Correctional Officers Killed or ...

Authors Note:Thefindingsand con -clusionsin this reportar e thoseof th eaut horsan d do not ne cessarily repr e-se nt the viewsof the NationalInsti tutefor OccupationalSafetyand Heal the , app roximately hal f amillioncorrectional Officers areres ponsiblefor supervisingmor ethan two mi lli on al of fice rs are ex pose d to uniqu eworkplaceha zardswith in a co ntr olledprisonenv ir onment. Of all . work -er s, Correctional office rs have on e ofthe hi ghestrates of nonfatal,wo rk-rela ted 20 11, correctionalofficersexper ience d 54 4 wor k-r elatedin ju ries or illnessespe r 10,000ful l-tim e employees (FTEs),whichwereseri ous enoughto re qui re tha t theymisseda day of was morethan four timesgreaterthan the ratefor all workerswho misseda day ofwork(117 cases per 10,000 FTEs).2 Also in 201 1, correctionaloff ice rsexp erienced254 work-rela ted injuriesper 10,00 0 FTEs due to assaults andvio lent acts.

Frequenciesandpercentageswere calculatedfordifferentcharacteris-tics.Also,nationalfatalandnonfatal work-relatedinjuryrateswerecalcu - latedusinglaborforcedatafromthe

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