OTHER NEWS - Feb. 2, 1993

Study Says Job-Related Injuries Underestimated: American workers miss at least five times more workdays because of job-related injuries than federal statistics show, says a study by the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health in Ann Arbor. Arthur Oleinick, one of the study’s authors, estimated that the national survey of occupational injuries and illnesses excluded 373 million of the 421 million missed workdays through March, 1990, that resulted from job-related injuries in 1986. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which compiles the federal government’s figures, surveys 250,000 of an estimated 6 million U.S. employers. Only private industries are surveyed. Small farms and people who work in private homes are excluded.