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Nonfatal injuries and illnesses in finance and insurance down slightly in 2017
January 31, 2019
Finance and insurance was one of two industries whose incidence rate of total recordable cases of injuries and illnesses declined in 2017, along with manufacturing. In finance and insurance, the rate declined by 0.1 cases per 100 full-time equivalent workers compared with 2016.
Nonfatal occupational injury and illness incidence rates per 100 full-time equivalent workers by case type, finance and insurance, private industry, 2014–17
Year
Total recordable cases
Days away from work cases
Other recordable cases
2014
0.7
0.2
0.4
2015
0.5
0.2
0.3
2016
0.6
0.1
0.4
2017
0.5
0.1
0.3
Despite the decline in total recordable cases in 2017, the incidence rate of 0.1 days-away-from-work cases per 100 full-time equivalent workers was the same rate reported in 2016.
Workers in finance and insurance incurred a total of 8,090 days-away-from-work cases in 2017, of which 4,180 resulted from falls, slips, or trips. Falls, slips, or trips in this industry occurred to women disproportionately, with 3,760 cases among women compared with 410 cases among men in 2017. The number of falls, slips, or trips cases among women increased by 1,250 in 2017, offsetting the decreases observed in two other event or exposure categories (contact with objects and equipment and overexertion and bodily reaction). The total number of days-away-from-work cases that occurred to men decreased in 2017 compared with 2016 as a result of declines in transportation incidents; falls, slips, and trips; and overexertion and bodily reaction.
United States Department of Labor
