National Safety Month: Part 2
National Safety Month: Part 2
Published: June 24th, 2019
20 statistics that stress the importance of safety
awareness and prevention at home and in the workplace
- Preventable Injuries are the third
leading cause of death in the United States, behind heart disease and cancer.
- In 2017, the US experienced 169,936
preventable injury-related deaths.
- A preventable death occurs
every 3
minutes.
- $1.034
billion in costs are associated with preventable injury and injury-related
deaths.
- The top three leading causes of
preventable injury-related death are poisoning, motor vehicles, and falls.
- Drug
poisoning is now the No. 1 cause of unintentional death in the United
States.
- Every day, more than 100
people die from drug poisoning/opioid drugs.
- The number of preventable work
deaths in 2017 totaled 4,414.
- Nearly 13,000 American
workers suffer an avoidable injury every day.
- Work-related medically consulted injuries totaled 4.5 million in 2017.
- Total work injury costs were estimated at $161.5 billion.
- The 104,000,000
days lost in 2017 are a result of injuries that occurred in 2017 and days lost
in 2017 from injuries that occurred in previous years.
- Days missed due to injuries in 2017 totaled 70,000,000.
- NSC estimates 55,000,000
additional days will be lost in the future due to on-the-job deaths and
permanently disabling injuries that occurred in 2017.
- The top three
leading causes of work-related injuries are overexertion and bodily reaction,
contact with objects and equipment, and slips, trips, and falls.
- Falls
are the second leading cause of accidental or unintentional injury deaths
worldwide.
- Every year, 2
million American workers report having been victims of workplace violence.
- Assaults
are the fourth leading cause of work-related deaths.
- In 2017, work-related assaults resulted in 18,400
injuries and illnesses involving days away from work and 458 fatalities.
- Overexertion causes 35% of all
work-related injuries and is the No. 1 reason for lost work days
June is National Safety Month, join MedSafe in
bringing awareness to the importance of ensuring safety at work and home!!!