The average American spends 90,000 hours at work over the course of a lifetime. Work is an enormous part of our lives, and we all have the right to expect that at the end of the workday, we will return home just as healthy and whole as we arrived at the job site. But that is not always the case, and people are injured or killed on the job at a rate that many find surprising.
According to an article published an article published recently by the Economic Policy Institute, 23,000 people are injured and 5000 die on the job in the U.S. every day. This totals about 8.5 million injuries a year, a staggering toll in lost life, health, and productivity. The cost to victims, their families, and society from work-related injuries is around $192 billion annually! And that only includes workplace injuries, before you even consider the
