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Occupational Injury

Last updated: March 25, 2019

What Does Occupational Injury Mean?

An occupational injury is an injury that takes place in the course of a person's employment activities. It may be any kind of injury that results from the workplace, including illness or disease.

There are a wide range of factors that may contribute to an occupational injury, including workplace temperature, physical tasks, noise, radiation, and employee burnout.

Safeopedia Explains Occupational Injury

Occupational injuries account for around 350,000 deaths in the workplace worldwide each year. Another 270 million workers annually are injured.

Workplace occupational injury statistics reveal that the body parts that are most commonly affected by occupational injuries are the head, skeleton, spine, hands and lungs.

In the United States, the most dangerous sectors to work in, based on occupational injury statistics, are construction, transportation and warehousing, agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting.

Slips, trips, and falls are the most common causes of injury, and advancing age is the most common contributing factor to occupational injury.

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