@article{ref1,
title="Falling through the legal cracks: the pitfalls of using workers' compensation data as indicators of work-related injuries and illnesses",
journal="Policy and practice in health and safety",
year="2008",
author="Cox, Rachel and Lippel, Katherine",
volume="6",
number="2",
pages="9-30",
abstract="Workers' compensation statistics are often used to define prevention priorities in occupational safety and health. In this paper we address this issue from a legal perspective. We examine legal and social factors that can make the costs of work-related illnesses and injuries appear less dramatic than they really are, or even disappear altogether. These factors include limited coverage of some sectors of the labour market and certain types of employment injury, low initial acceptance rates of claims for certain kinds of injury and illness, a failure to claim by certain categories of worker and a failure to adequately compensate certain categories of claimant. We illustrate how these factors have a particularly negative effect on women workers as well as on precariously employed workers. The conclusions outline the relevance of our findings for both researchers and policy-makers.<p />",
language="",
issn="1477-3996",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}