Focus Area 20:Occupational Safety and Health

Progress Review

February 21, 2008

Burden of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses

• In 2006 5,703 work-related injury deaths in the U.S. (~16 deaths/day) More than 4 million new nonfatal injuries and illnesses

reported in the private industry alone• 3,857,400 injuries • 228,000 illnesses

• Estimated cost of occupational injuries and illnesses are: $128 - $155 Billion dollars

Source: Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, BLS; Annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, BLS; Schulte P. Characterizing the burden of occupational injury and disease. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2005;47(6):607–22.

Highlighted Objectives

Getting worse20-1b,e Work-related injury deaths

20-1a,c Work-related injury deaths 20-2d,f,h Work-related injuries20-3 Overexertion or repetitive motion injuries20-4 Pneumoconiosis deaths20-7 Elevated blood lead levels

Improving

Target met or exceeded20-2a,b,g Work-related injuries20-8 Occupational skin diseases or disorders

0

2

4

6

8

Work-Related Injury Deaths

Notes: Data are for workers 16 and over in specific industry. The categories black and white exclude persons of Hispanic origin. Baseline data for Blacks and Whites is 2000. Persons of Hispanic origin may be any race. Source: Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, DOL, BLS

Deaths per 100,000

Total

Decrease desired

Obj. 20-1a

1998 2006

Black White Hispanic Female Male

2010 Target: 3.2

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Decrease desired

Work-Related Injury Deaths

Deaths per 100,000

Total

Agriculture

Mining

Notes: Data are for workers 16 and over in specific industry. Source: Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, DOL, BLS.

Obj. 20-1a-c, 20-1e

Construction

2010 Targets

Number of Pneumoconiosis Deaths, 2000-04

Notes: Number of persons aged 15 years and older. Source: National Occupational Respiratory Mortality System (NORMS), CDC, NIOSH. Obj. 20-4

Number of Deaths2000-04

25 - 126

127 - 308

309 - 672

673 - 1293

1294 - 2488

< 25

Number of Pneumoconiosis Deaths, 2000-04and change from 1980-84 to 2000-04

6

2

615

522

42

6

10

83

-8

-35

-2

3928

14

-15

11

25

15

59

19

38

88

188

22

195

132

144-38

36

241

-27

-328

82

147

-77-352

-630

-6726

2

-434

-9

5

27

115-24

55

13

Notes: Number of persons aged 15 years and older. Source: National Occupational Respiratory Mortality System (NORMS), CDC, NIOSH. Obj. 20-4

Number of Deaths2000-04

25 - 126

127 - 308

309 - 672

673 - 1293

1294 - 2488

< 25

Number within states is the change in the number of deathsbetween the 1980-84 period and the 2000-04 period

Pneumoconiosis Death Rate Changeper 100,000 from 1980-84 to 2000-04

20-Year Change in Death Rate

-151.97

-80.8 to -57.9

-57.7 to 0.0

0.0 to 8.3

8.3 to 21.6

Notes: Data are for persons aged 15 years and older. Source: National Occupational Respiratory Mortality System (NORMS), CDC, NIOSH.

Pneumoconiosis Deaths

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Number

Obj. 20-4

Decrease desired

2010 Target: 1,900

3,000

2,750

2,500

2,250

2,000

1,750

0

0

2

4

6

8

10

Work-Related Injuries

Notes: Except for adolescents, data are for workers 16 and over; adolescents are workers 15-17. * Adolescents data are for 2005. Source: Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) DOL, BLS.

Per 100 full-time workers

Total

Decrease desired

Obj. 20-2a,b,d,f-h

1998 2006

Mining Construction Agriculture Manufacturing Adolescents

*

2010 Target

Notes: Data are for workers 16 and over.Source: Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) DOL, BLS.

Overexertion or Repetitive Motion Injuries

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Per 100,000 full-time workers

Obj. 20-3

Decrease desired

2010 Target: 338

Notes: Data are for persons aged 16 years and older with blood lead levels 25 µg/dl or greaterSource: Adult blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance Program (ABLES), CDC, NIOSH.

Elevated Blood Lead Levels

0

3

6

9

12

15

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Per 100,000employed adults

Obj. 20-7

Decrease desired

2010 Target: 0

Notes: Data are for workers 16 and over.Source: Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) DOL, BLS.

Occupational Skin Diseases or Disorders

0

25

50

75

100

Per 100,000full-time workers

Obj. 20-8

Decrease desired

2010 Target: 47

HP2010Baseline

Status of Occupational Health Objectives

• Target met or exceeded

• Improving

• Getting worse

• Little or no progress*

• No tracking data

• Dropped at midcourse

• Retained as developmental

6

11

3

0

1

0

1

* Percent of targeted progress achieved is between -10% and 10%, and/or not statistically significant.

Progress review data and slidescan be found on the web at:

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