Throughout the world a worker dies from a work related accident or disease every 15 seconds. In addition, 153 workers have non fatal work related accident every 15 seconds.
These figures translate to 6,300 people dying every day as a result of occupational accidents or work-related diseases which is more than 2.3 million deaths per year. Every year there are 317 million accidents which occur on the job and many of these mean that workers have to have a long period of time away from their job leading to a major economic burden on the worker as well as the company.
In the United States, the Occupational Safety and health Administration was created over 40 years ago to try and reduce the number of work related accidents and injuries. Before its creation it is estimated that 14,000 workers were killed at work each year but nowadays instead of 38 fatal injuries a day there are 12. While this is a major decrease there is still much work to be done to ensure that less workers are killed or injured on the job.
To learn more about your rights and potential compensation after a work-related accident, please call the Cumberland work accident attorneys of Dolina Hobbs, LLC, at (301) 739-1013 or contact us online today.
