Workers compensation-reported injuries among security and law enforcement personnel in the private versus public sectors

Workers compensation-reported injuries among security and law enforcement personnel in the private versus public sectors

Abstract Background Private and Public security and law enforcement (SLE) sectors perform multiple overlapping job duties. Methods Workers’ compensation (WC) SLE first reports of injury (FROI) data (2005–2015) were analyzed to describe injuries, identify differences in awarded WC benefits, and compa...

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Main Authors: W. S. Witt, T. L. Bunn, S. Slavova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:Injury Epidemiology
Subjects:
Private and public security and law enforcement sectors
Fall injuries
Strain injuries
Job tenure
First reports of injuries
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40621-018-0156-9

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