A preliminary total of 4,609 work-related fatalities, or 3.5 deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers, were recorded in the United States in 2011, according to the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2010 there were 4,690 fatalities, a rate of 3.6 per 100,000 workers.
Employees who take intermittent time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act are nearly three times more likely to file a subsequent short-term disability claim than those who do not take leave, according to a study by Reed Group, a national firm specializing in leave, disability and return-to-work management. The most common reasons for […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), state and local health departments and the Food and Drug Administration are investigating a multi-state outbreak of fungal meningitis and related fatalities among patients who received a steroid injection of a potentially contaminated product. This form of meningitis is not contagious.
Workers who believe they might lose their job were nearly four times more likely to report symptoms of anxiety attacks and seven times more likely to have symptoms of depression in a Michigan study published in the September 2012 Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.