EHS Today has published a photo gallery featuring the top 10 workplace injuries as reported in the 2014 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index. They found that workplace injuries had a direct cost of $60 billion to business owners – that’s more than $1 billion per week!
Of the top 10 workplace injuries, the top 5 injuries accounted for 65.4% of the total cost and the next 5 an additional 18.4%.
Here are the top 10 workplace injuries with the costs:
- Overexertion – $15.1 billion
- Falls on the same level – $9.19 billion
- Struck By – $5.3 billion
- Falls to lower level – $5.12 billion
- Other exertions (kneeling, standing, bending, twisting) – $4.27 billion
- Motor vehicle accidents – $3.18 billion
- Slip or trip without fall – $2.17 billion
- Caught in equipment – $2.1 billion
- Repetitive motion – $1.84 billion
- Struck against – $1.76 billion
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