What industrial categories are workers at excess risk of filing a COVID-19 workers' compensation claim? a study conducted in 11 midwestern US States

Edward J. Bernacki; Dan L. Hunt; Larry Yuspeh; Robert A. Lavin; Nimisha Kalia; Nina Leung; Nicholas F. Tsourmas; Leila Williams; Xuguang Tao

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What industrial categories are workers at excess risk of filing a COVID-19 workers' compensation claim? a study conducted in 11 midwestern US States

Edward J. Bernacki, Dan L. Hunt, Larry Yuspeh, Robert A. Lavin, Nimisha Kalia, Nina Leung, Nicholas F. Tsourmas, Leila Williams, Xuguang Tao

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Objective: Determine the industries with the highest proportion of accepted COVID-19 related workers' compensation (WC) claims. Methods: Study included 21, 336 WC claims (1898 COVID-19 and 19, 438 other claims) that were filed between January 1, 2020 and August 31, 2020 from 11 states in the Midwest United States. Result: The overwhelming proportion of all COVID-19 related WC claims submitted and accepted were from healthcare workers (83.77%). Healthcare was the only industrial classification that was at significantly higher COVID-19 WC claim submission risk (odds ratio [OR]: 4.00; 95% confidence intervals [CI]: 2.77 to 5.79) controlling for type of employment, sex, age, and presumption of COVID-19 work-relatedness. Within healthcare employment, WC claims submitted by workers in medical laboratories had the highest risk (crude rate ratio of 8.78). Conclusion: Healthcare employment is associated with an increased risk of developing COVID-19 infections and submitting a workers' compensation claim.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	374-380
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Volume	63
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000002126
State	Published - Apr 2 2021

Keywords

COVID-19
Healthcare
Industry
Laboratories
Workers' compensation

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Bernacki, E. J., Hunt, D. L., Yuspeh, L., Lavin, R. A., Kalia, N., Leung, N., Tsourmas, N. F., Williams, L., & Tao, X. (2021). What industrial categories are workers at excess risk of filing a COVID-19 workers' compensation claim? a study conducted in 11 midwestern US States. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 63(5), 374-380. https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000002126

What industrial categories are workers at excess risk of filing a COVID-19 workers' compensation claim? a study conducted in 11 midwestern US States. / Bernacki, Edward J.; Hunt, Dan L.; Yuspeh, Larry et al.
In: Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, Vol. 63, No. 5, 02.04.2021, p. 374-380.

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Bernacki, EJ, Hunt, DL, Yuspeh, L, Lavin, RA, Kalia, N, Leung, N, Tsourmas, NF, Williams, L & Tao, X 2021, 'What industrial categories are workers at excess risk of filing a COVID-19 workers' compensation claim? a study conducted in 11 midwestern US States', Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 374-380. https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000002126

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