Experts agree that this huge disparity in injury rates for employers in the same industry is often due largely to training and management issues that are easily addressed with low cost safety measures. Safety makes good business sense, and can generate big dollar savings. Injuries at work are bad for business. The damage to muscle and bone is only one cost. For years safety experts have shown that the business costs of accidents far exceed the premium cost for worker's compensation insurance.
Studies show that lost time injuries cause expensive delays, mistakes, and rework.
In today's tight labor market you suffer increased personnel and supervisory costs when replacing injured and permanently disabled workers. Finally, failure to provide a safe workplace may result in higher indemnity payments to injured employees. We used data reported to us by law to compute these injury rates. We will promptly correct any inaccuracies. A review of this claim information should alert you to safety problems in your company.