Top Fields for Job Related Injury

According to OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor, the highest incidence rates of total non-fatal occupational related injuries and illnesses occurred in the below listed occupational areas with the fire protection jobs having the highest amount of job related illnesses and injuries and descending in consecutive order in number of occupational associated illness and injury toward construction area jobs.   

1. Fire Protection jobs
2. Police Protection jobs
3. Skiing facility jobs
4. Secondary smelting and alloying of aluminum jobs (private industry)
5. Steel foundry jobs (private industry)
6. Sports team jobs and sports club jobs (private industry)
7. Heavy and civil engineering construction jobs (local government)

These job areas are the top seven job areas for employment related illness and injury and the entries continue descending to make up a very long list of employment genres.

Rate of Employment Related Injury on the Decline

According to OSHA American employers must be doing something right on a national basis because the overall rate of all job related illnesses and injury is dropping significantly in private and in public industries.  That is good news.  It seems that manufacturing industry was the only private industry with disappointing employee injury and illness numbers.  Goods-producing industries accounted for thirty eight per cent of all occupational illness cases and were responsible for more than two-thirds of the decline in employee illnesses reported to OSHA.  Mid-size employers, those employing fifty to two hundred and fifty workers had the highest number of reported on the job injuries and illnesses reported.  Employers with a small number of employees had the lowest amount of reported employee illnesses and injuries.  OSHA makes reports these numbers with a caveat the employers intentionally seek to under-report employee work related illnesses and injuries.

Getting Legal Help

If you or a member of your family has been suffered a work related illness or injury it may be important to contact a personal injury lawyer to discuss the circumstances of the on-the-job injury or illness and the steps taken to apply for and claim benefits with your State’s workman’s compensation program or your employer provided disability benefits program.  An attorney can review the circumstances of the work related illness or on-the-job injury and provide valuable guidance of the methods required to apply for and claim disability benefits or take other appropriate legal action as needed to protect the rights of the injured worker and his family members.

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