{"id":1112,"date":"2010-06-28T20:18:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T01:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2010-06-28T20:18:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T01:18:21","slug":"working-for-usps-may-be-dangerous-to-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/06\/28\/working-for-usps-may-be-dangerous-to-your-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Working For USPS May Be Dangerous To Your Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/USPS-Dangerous-To-Your-Health1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1114\" title=\"USPS Dangerous To Your Health\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/USPS-Dangerous-To-Your-Health1-150x150.gif\" alt=\"USPS Dangerous To Your Health\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>June 28, 2010<\/p>\n<p>According to reports released by the Department of Labor it remains a fact that working for USPS may not be good for your health &#8211; or at least your body.<\/p>\n<p>Federal injury and illness statistics for the second quarter of fiscal year 2010 indicate the following:<br \/>\n[case amounts\u00a0are for the second quarter of 2010]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Total Federal Injury\/Illness Cases: <\/strong>53,025<br \/>\n<strong>Total USPS Injury\/Illness Cases:<\/strong> 21,424<br \/>\n<strong>Total Injury\/Illness Cases For <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Non-Postal<\/span> Federal Employees: <\/strong>31,601<\/p>\n<p>The above\u00a0case numbers\u00a0mean that over 40% of all injuries and illnesses reported\u00a0to the federal government for the second quarter of fiscal year 2010 are attributable employees of the United States Postal Service.<\/p>\n<p>The federal agency that came closest to USPS in reported injury and illness cases\u00a0for this period is the Department of Defense with a total of 9.608 cases.<\/p>\n<p>During this same time period there were 4 postal deaths and 19 non-postal federal employee deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 28, 2010 According to reports released by the Department of Labor it remains a fact that working for USPS may not be good for your health &#8211; or at least your body. Federal injury and illness statistics for the second quarter of fiscal year 2010 indicate the following: [case amounts\u00a0are for the second quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","tag-dangerous-place-to-work","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}