Provide prompt treatment. A delay in treatment can result in greater injury or even death. Take injured workers to appropriate hospitals - big injuries should go to hospitals that have the resources to provide for them. Approximately 39.6 million people are treated in hospital emergency departments, and 2.6 million Americans are hospitalized, each year due to traumatic injuries. One in four American workers have been affected by a traumatic injury.
Traumatic injury accounts for more lost years of life than heart disease and cancer combined.
While many cancers and heart ailments can be prevented, trauma is truly preventable. This information will be available from September 18 to 24.