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Published 03/04/2019
The annual Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index documents the top ten causes of the most serious workplace injuries – those causing an employee to miss five or more days from work – and ranks them by their direct cost to employers, which consists of medical and lost-wage payments.
The 2019 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index is the first to also report the causes and costs of the most serious workplace injuries for eight specific industries that account for a high proportion of all national workplace injuries.
Review our infographic to learn more about the top ten causes. Then, partner with your insurance broker and carrier to understand the root causes of the most serious workplace injuries in your operation and how you can effectively mitigate them to better protect employees and your bottom line.
Methodology:
The Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Indices are based on 2016 data from Liberty Mutual, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and the National Academy of Social Insurance. BLS non-fatal injury data are analyzed to determine which events caused employees to miss more than five days of work, and then rank those events by total workers compensation costs.
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