| The National Safety Council says U.S. workers face a greater risk of accidents at home than on the job. Since 1992, the number of people dying from on-the-job injuries has declined 17 percent.
Those strides have been almost wiped out by the number of U.S. employees who died from accidents away from work, up 14 percent during the same period.
Nearly 7 million workers were “seriously injured” off the job in 2004, about twice as many as who got hurt while working.
Nearly 90 percent of the 49,000 injury-related deaths to U.S. workers occurred during leisure hours.
The combined cost to companies of all employee injuries pegged at $330 billion, with non-job injuries accounting for nearly $200 billion.
The Annals of Family Medicine, in a newly published report, says that angry people are four times as likely to suffer an injury than those who curb their anger, including being at greater risk of harming themselves while working. | 