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- Work-related crushing injuries are significant and preventable, with 1,260 reported cases in Michigan from 2013 to 2015, prompting the state to launch a multi-data source surveillance system.
- The surveillance utilized records from hospitals, the Workers Compensation Agency, and the MIFACE program to identify injuries, leading to OSHA inspections at worksites where individuals were hospitalized or treated in emergency departments.
- The findings revealed 3,137 work-related crushing incidents over the same period, including two fatalities, indicating that the surveillance system identified 2.5 times more injuries than the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Article Abstract
Background: Work-related crushing injuries are serious but preventable. For 2013 through 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) reported 1260 crushing injuries in Michigan. In 2013, Michigan initiated multi-data source surveillance of work-related crushing injuries.
Methods: Records from all 134 of Michigan's hospitals/emergency departments (EDs), the Workers Compensation Agency (WCA) and Michigan's Fatality Assessment Control and Evaluation (MIFACE) program were used to identify work-related crushing injuries. Companies, where individuals were hospitalized or had an ED visit for a crushing injury, potentially had an OSHA enforcement inspection conducted.
Results: From 2013 through 2015, there were 3137 work-related crushing injury incidents, including two fatalities. The Michigan OSHA program completed inspections at 77 worksites identified by the surveillance system.
Conclusion: The Michigan multisource surveillance system identified two and a half times more crushing injuries than BLS and was useful for initiating case-based enforcement inspections.
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