November 15, 2023
Injuries and Illness Up 7.5% in 2022
“We have the tools and technology to make our jobs safer,” says Peter Dooley, of National Council for Occupational Safety and Health.
On November 8, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said that private industry employers reported 2.8 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2022, up 7.5% from 2021.
This increase is driven by the rise in both injuries, up 4.5% to 2.3 million cases, and illnesses up 26.1% to 460,700 cases.
The main component of illnesses come from respiratory illness cases, up 35.4% to 365,000 cases in 2022.. This comes after a decrease in respiratory illnesses in 2021 compared to 2020.
Regarding statistics for 2022, the total recordable cases (TRC) incidence rate in private industry in 2022 was 2.7 cases per 100 FTE workers. In 2022, the rate of injury cases was 2.3