{"id":3124,"date":"2016-09-13T14:47:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2020-04-27T07:57:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T12:57:27","slug":"the-top-10-most-costly-u-s-workplace-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/13\/the-top-10-most-costly-u-s-workplace-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"The top 10 most costly U.S. workplace injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

10. Repetitive motions involving micro-tasks<\/strong>
\nThis category represents 2.9% of the total and amounts to $1.82 billion.
\nSome of these tasks may include a word processor who looks from the computer monitor to a document and back several times a day or the cashier at the local grocery store who is scanning and bagging groceries for several hours at a time.
\n9.<\/strong> Struck against object or equipment<\/strong>
\nThis category of workplace injury applies to workers who are hurt by forcible contact or impact, for example, an office worker who bumps into a filing cabinet or an assembly line worker who stubs a toe on stacked parts.
\nThese injuries account for 3% of the total and $1.85 billion
\n8.<\/strong> Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects
\n<\/strong>Amounting to 3.2%, or $1.97 billion, these workplace injuries result from workers being caught in equipment or machinery that\u2019s still running as well as in rolling, shifting or sliding objects.
\nPicture the scene in a movie in which wine barrels topple over, catching the bad guy beneath them, only in this case, it\u2019s the employee whose job it may be to stack the barrels. Perhaps it\u2019s the experienced worker who removes a machine guard to dislodge material that\u2019s stuck and gets a finger caught when the machine starts moving again.
\n7. Slip or trip without fall
\n<\/strong>Occasionally, workers do slip or trip without hitting the ground. Think of the employee entering the workplace who slips on icy stairs but is able to grab the handrail to prevent hitting the ground. But the action of grabbing the handrail may cause the employee to injure his shoulder or wrench her knee.
\nInjuries in this category are 3.8% of the total and cost $2.35 billion.
\n6. Roadway incidents involving motorized land vehicle<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Accounting for 4.8% of injuries at a cost of $2.96 billion are motor vehicle accidents.
\nThe worker may be the driver, a passenger or a pedestrian, but the cause of the injury is an automobile, truck or motorcycle.
\n5. Other exertions or bodily reactions<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>These motions include bending, crawling, reaching, twisting, climbing or stepping, according to the BLS. Consider, for example, a roofing contractor\u2019s employees who are continually climbing up and down ladders.
\nThese injuries are 6.7% of the total, amounting to $4.15 billion.
\n4. Struck by object or equipment<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>This category covers a range of possible injuries, from being struck by an object dropped by a fellow worker to being caught in a swinging door or gate. Picture the construction worker on a scaffold dropping a hammer on the worker below.
\nThese injuries account for $5.31 billion in costs, 8.6% of the total.
\n3. Falls to lower level<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>The roofer could fall to the ground from the roof or ladder, or an office worker standing on a stepstool, reaching for a heavy file box, could fall to the floor.
\nThese injuries are 8.7% of the total, costing employers $5.40 billion
\n2. Falls on same level<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>The second most costly workplace injury, surprisingly, is a fall on the same level. Picture the employee who is walking through the office and falls over an uneven floor surface or someone leaning too far back in an office chair and toppling over.
\nThese injuries, costing $10.17 billion, are 16.4% of the total.
\n1. Overexertion involving an outside source<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>According to the data, this category ranked at the top of the leading causes of disabling injury, with costs reaching $15.08 billion, and almost a quarter of the total (24.4%).
\nThe BLS explains that overexertion occurs when the physical effort of a worker who lifts, pulls, pushes, holds, carries, wields or throws an object results in an injury.
\nThe object being handled is often heavier than the weight that a worker should be handling or the object is handled improperly. For example, lifting from a shelf that\u2019s too high, or in a space that\u2019s cramped.
\nWithin the broad category of sprains, strains, and tears caused by overexertion, most incidents resulted specifically from overexertion in lifting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

10. Repetitive motions involving micro-tasks This category represents 2.9% of the total and amounts to $1.82 billion. Some of these tasks may include a word processor who looks from the computer monitor to a document and back several times a day or the cashier at the local grocery store who is scanning and bagging groceries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flagshipinsuranceservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}