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USPS Injuries Down in 2009
November 25, 2009
The Postal Service’s fiscal year 2009 safety performance record showed a positive trend — employees are working safer.
End-of-year performance shows the total number of accidents were down 11,000 or 10.6 percent from last year. Total accidents include all OSHA recordable and non-recordable incidents, including those suffered by non-postal employees injured on USPS property.
OSHA Injuries and Illnesses (I&Is) were down 5,400, or 13.9 percent, compared to FY 2008. Those accidents cover the full range of injuries and illnesses incurred by employees, including handling and lifting accidents to slips, trips and falls (both on and off postal premises) to injuries resulting from vehicle accidents.
Other notable FY 2009 end-of-year statistics, compared to FY 2008, include:
- Handling and lifting incidents were down by 954 incidents, or 17 percent.
- Dog attacks and bites were down by 296 incidents, or 9.4 percent.
- Musculoskeletal disorders — incidents caused by throwing, pushing, pulling, bending or repetitive motion (excluding handling and lifting) — were reduced by 2,020, or 25 percent.
- Slips, trips and falls on premises were down 406, or 5.1 percent.
Source: USPS
I agree and I would like to share my opinion – Fatal work accidents on the private mining industry rose from 99 in 2009 to 172 in 2010, an increase of 74 percent. The fatal work injury rate for mining increased from 12.4 per 100,000 FTEs in 2009 to 19.9 per 100,000 in 2010. The multiple-fatality incidents on the Upper Big Branch Mine and the Deepwater Horizon oil rig are involved in these numbers.