{"id":607,"date":"2009-11-25T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T21:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=607"},"modified":"2009-11-25T16:31:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T21:31:49","slug":"postal-service-says-injuries-and-illnesses-declined-in-fy-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2009\/11\/25\/postal-service-says-injuries-and-illnesses-declined-in-fy-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service Says Injuries and Illnesses Declined in FY 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-608\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/letter-carrier.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-608\" title=\"letter-carrier\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/letter-carrier-150x150.gif\" alt=\"USPS Injuries Down in 2009\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USPS Injuries Down in 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>November 25, 2009<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service\u2019s fiscal year 2009 safety performance record showed a positive trend \u2014 employees are working safer.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>OSHA Injuries and Illnesses (I&amp;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.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable FY 2009 end-of-year statistics, compared to FY 2008, include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Handling and lifting incidents were down by 954 incidents, or 17 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Dog attacks and bites were down by 296 incidents, or 9.4 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Musculoskeletal disorders \u2014 incidents caused by throwing, pushing, pulling, bending or repetitive motion (excluding handling and lifting) \u2014 were reduced by 2,020, or 25 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Slips, trips and falls on premises were down 406, or 5.1 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: USPS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 25, 2009 The Postal Service\u2019s fiscal year 2009 safety performance record showed a positive trend \u2014 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 [&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":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}