Proportions of Workers Who Were Work-Injured and Payment by Workers’ Compensation Systems
10 States, 2007
Approximately 4 million occupational nonfatal injuries and illnesses among workers were reported by employers in the United States in 2007. Research indicates that self-reported, nonfatal, occupational injury rates exceed estimates from employer reports or state workers’ compensation systems. To estimate the incidence of self-reported work-injured persons and the proportion of those injured for whom workers’ compensation insurance programs paid for medical care, 10 states added a module to their 2007 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey. This report summarizes the results of that survey.
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5929a1.htm?s_cid=mm5929a1_w