Book Recounts Personal Stories of Injured Workers
There are a lot of articles and statistics about workplace injuries and workplace deaths. But sometimes these stories are so focused on facts and figures that they miss the human element --behind every statistic there's a person who was hurt on the job and whose life will never be the same because of it.
Author Lisa Cullen tells those stories in her book, "A Job to Die For: Why So Many Americans Are Killed, Injured Or Made Ill At Work And What To Do About It ."
Each year, the workplace extends into nearby communities to claim the lives of 218 bystanders and injure another 68,000.
7.1 percent of workers are injured or made ill on the job. Every year.
The cost of this carnage and disease tops $155.5 billion annually; five times the cost of AIDS, three times the costs for Alzheimer's, and nearly as much as cancer.
The book is a great reminder of what someone who is hurt at work goes through.
I encourage you to pick up a copy, and you may also want to listen in on an interview Cullen gave on Labor Day about workplace injuries.