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Workers’ Memorial Day – April 28

By Kathy Powers on April 14, 2025April 14, 2025

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/about/workers-memorial-day.html

Workers’ Memorial Day is observed each year on April 28. It was established to recognize workers who died or suffered from exposures to hazards at work. It also encourages us to think of ways in which we all can help to achieve the goal of safer and healthier workplaces.

Cost of Workplace Injury & Illness

Occupational injuries and illnesses have broad social and economic impacts on workers, their families, employers, and society as a whole. There are several ways to estimate those consequences. These include methods that focus on medical costs, productivity losses, health-related quality of life losses, or risk-money tradeoffs that consider pain and suffering.

Based on methods that focus on medical costs and productivity losses, the societal cost of work-related fatalities, injuries, and illnesses was estimated at $250 billion in 2007. Methods that include consideration of pain and suffering would result in a higher estimated societal cost.

Worker Health Charts: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/Niosh-whc/

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