Employees injured in a slip, trip or fall are off work for an average of 38 days.
Accidents involving slips, trips and falls send 9 million people to the hospital each year and are a leading cause of workers’ compensation claims, costing an average of $20,000 per accident.
Did you know that 95 million workdays per year are lost due to slip-and-fall injuries? Here are a few facts about slip, trip and fall injuries:
Wet walking surfaces is the cause for slips and falls 55 percent of the time.
The average time off work due to a fall accident is 38 days.
The top occupations for days missed due to occupational injury are police officers, janitors, nurses and food service workers.
Sandy Smith is the former content director of EHS Today, and is currently the EHSQ content & community lead at Intelex Technologies Inc. She has written about occupational safety and health and environmental issues since 1990.
