Citation

Boden LI, O'Leary PK, Applebaum KM, Tripodis Y. Am. J. Ind. Med. 2016; 59(12): 1061-1069.

Affiliation

Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/ajim.22632

PMID

27427538

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Little research has examined the relationship between non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses, and long-term mortality.

METHODS: We linked non-fatal injury cases reported to the New Mexico workers' compensation system for 1994-2000 with Social Security Administration data on individual earnings and mortality through 2014. We then derived sex-specific Kaplan-Meier curves to show time to death for workers with lost-time injuries (n = 36,377) and comparison workers (n = 70,951). We fit multivariable Cox survival models to estimate the hazard ratio separately for male and female workers with lost-time injuries.

RESULTS: The estimated hazard ratio for lost-time injuries is 1.24 for women and 1.21 for men. Ninety-five percent confidence intervals were 1.15, 1.35 and 1.15, 1.27, respectively.

CONCLUSION: Lost-time occupational injuries are associated with a substantially elevated mortality hazard. This implies an important formerly unmeasured cost of these injuries and a further reason to focus on preventing them. Am. J. Ind. Med. 9999:XX-XX, © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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