Ten Most Common Occupational Illnesses in the USA

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Accidents happen anywhere, anytime, even when proper safety and training steps are taken. Every year, thousands of workers file claims after something within the system hiccups and compromises their overall well-being, or quite simply, because the demands of the positions themselves begin wearing down the body with continuous physical stress. Injuries, which the government lumps in with illnesses, run the most rampant in the offices, warehouses, roads, and other workplaces across the United States.

For consistency’s sake, all numbers have been culled from the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s 2010 study of nonfatal occupational illnesses requiring days away from work.

More: http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/07/03/10-most-common-occupational-illnesses-u-s/

Bureau of Labor Statistics November 2011 Press Release:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/osh2_11092011.pdf

OSHA stats available here:

http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/index.html

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