Work sites with a lost workday incident rate of 14 cases per 100 workers in 1999 have been targeted for wall-to-wall inspections by OSHA as part of the agency's 2001 site-specific targeting program.
About 4,000 of the 80,000 sites submitting 1999 injury and illness data to OSHA reported rates at or above 14.0 per 100 workers, according to OSHA. The national average lost workday rate for private industry in 1999 was 3.0.