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Steven J Wurzelbacher1, Edward F Krieg, Alysha R Meyers
1From the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Objective:
The purpose of this study was to understand federal workplace injury/illness trends.
Methods:
Over 1.5 million federal and Postal Service employee workers' compensation (WC) claims from 2007 to 2022 were linked to employment data and analyzed.
Results:
From 2007 to 2019, falls, slips, trips represented the highest proportion of claims (30.7%), followed by overexertion and bodily reaction (24.4%), unclassified (16.4%), contact with objects and equipment (13.1%), violence and other injuries by persons or animals (8.8%), transportation incidents (4.0%), exposure to harmful substances or environments (2.5%), and fires and explosions (0.24%). From 2020 to 2022, COVID-19 drove a major shift to exposure to harmful substances or environments representing the highest proportion of claims (44.3%).
Conclusions:
Claims data represent a potentially rich data source that employing agencies can use to focus prevention and treatment of injury/illness.
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