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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2025

OSHA Injury Data: An Opportunity for Improving Work Injury Prevention.

David Michaels, Gregory R Wagner

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Article in American journal of public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  3. A nationwide analysis of heat and workplace injuries in the United States.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

David MichaelsDavid Michaels is with the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC. Gregory R. Wagner is with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.ORCID 0000-0001-8558-7733
Gregory R WagnerDavid Michaels is with the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC. Gregory R. Wagner is with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.ORCID 0000-0003-4165-7079

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Millions of US workers are seriously injured on the job annually. These injuries have a significant and deleterious impact on injured workers, their families, and their communities. The limitations of the historical work injury surveillance systems have constrained research into the distribution and determinants of work injuries and efforts to improve allocation of limited injury prevention resources. Most work injury data sets suffer from significant limitations and fail to include a sizable proportion of work injuries. In recent years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has begun to collect and make available to the public more detailed data on work injuries at thousands of high hazard establishments. These data sets provide the opportunity to greatly improve our work injury surveillance system. Researchers are now using these data to investigate and compare injury risk in industries and high-hazard firms where workers are at increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders. However, these rich data sets are underused. Maintaining and facilitating access to accurate, current data can contribute to improved prevention of work-related injuries and deaths. (

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Occupational InjuriesUnited States Occupational Safety and Health AdministrationHumansOccupational HealthUnited States

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PMID39946676
PMCPMC11903066

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