1993 Occupational Injuries and Illnesses by Selected Characteristics — 1995-04-26

Overexertion, being struck by objects, and falls to the same level are the leading ways in which workers are hurt on the job, together accounting for over half of the 2-1/4 million nonfatal injuries and illnesses in 1993 that resulted in days away from work. Where workers are most likely to sustain such disabling injuries and illnesses depends on the specific workplace risk. Nursing homes, for example, led all other industries in the rate of injuries due to overexertion or to workers falling to the same level. But logging sites ranked first for workers being struck by objects; roofing led in falls to a lower level; and motorcycle and bicycle factories were among several manufacturing industries with high rates of repetitive motion disorders. (See table A.) These findings are from the 1993 national survey of work-related injuries and illnesses in private industry by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.