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The impact of non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses on mortality
Leslie I Boden1, Paul K O'Leary2, Katie M Applebaum3
1Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Background:
Little research has examined the relationship between non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses, and long-term mortality.
Methods:
We linked non-fatal injury cases reported to the New Mexico workers' compensation system for 1994-2000 with Social Security Administration data on individual earnings and mortality through 2014. We then derived sex-specific Kaplan-Meier curves to show time to death for workers with lost-time injuries (n = 36,377) and comparison workers (n = 70,951). We fit multivariable Cox survival models to estimate the hazard ratio separately for male and female workers with lost-time injuries.
Results:
The estimated hazard ratio for lost-time injuries is 1.24 for women and 1.21 for men. Ninety-five percent confidence intervals were 1.15, 1.35 and 1.15, 1.27, respectively.
Conclusion:
Lost-time occupational injuries are associated with a substantially elevated mortality hazard. This implies an important formerly unmeasured cost of these injuries and a further reason to focus on preventing them. Am. J. Ind. Med. 59:1061-1069, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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