Leading Causes of Workplace Injuries and Illness List

Leading Causes of Workplace Injuries and Illness that resulted in employees missing five or more days of work include:

• overexertion;
• falls on same level;
• bodily reaction;
• falls to lower level;
• being struck by an object;
• repetitive motion;
• highway accidents;
• being struck against an object;
• being caught in or compressed by equipment;
• contact with temperature extremes.

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