Falls, slips and trips account for 15 percent of all accidental deaths per year, second only to motor vehicles as a cause of fatalities, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Falls, slips and trips also account for 25 percent of all reported injury claims and more than 95 million lost work days per year, according to the BLS.
Of interest, the incidence of lost-time falls occurring on the same level (17.45 per 10,000 workers) was triple falls to a lower level (5.4 per 10,000) in 2013. One training strategy to reduce falls on the same level is to train your workforce in the Japanese 5S methodology.