Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has conducted
a pilot study to learn more about occupational injuries and illnesses that resulted in days of job transfer or work restriction. According to the agency, the study compared the case circumstances and worker characteristics of injuries and illnesses that require days away from work to recuperate and those that lead to days of job transfer or restriction only, without time away from work.
The pilot study used data from 2011 through 2013, and it focused on six initial private industries:
- specialty trade contractors
- food manufacturing
- building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers
- air transportation
- warehousing and storage
- nursing and residential care facilities
The report presents data highlights and statistical tables on injuries and illnesses that led to one of three types of cases:
- DART: Days away from work, days of restricted work activity, or job transfer
- DJTR: Days of job transfer or restriction (only)
- DAFW: Days away from work (with or without days of job transfer or restriction)
"This pilot study is an effort to better understand the details of the case circumstances and worker characteristics of job-transfer and worker-restriction cases," BLS says. "Over the long term, the proportion of transfer and restriction cases has increased. These data provide a new understanding about how injuries and illnesses that lead to days of job transfer or restriction differ from those that lead to days away from work." Read the report
here.
