Costs of serious workplace injuries growing, study reveals
The cost of serious on-the-job injuries — those causing an employee to miss six or more days of work — continues to soar, even after adjusting for medical and wage inflation, according to the latest findings of the annual Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index.
In fact, over half of the 12.1 percent increase between 1998 and 2002 happened in 2002, despite a drop in the number of serious injuries over those four years.