An estimate of the US government's undercount of nonfatal occupational injuries
An estimate of the US government's undercount of nonfatal occupational injuries
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DOI：
10.1097/01.jom.0000105909.66435.53
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发表时间：
2004-01-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Miller, TR
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作者：
Leigh, JP;Marcin, JP;Miller, TR
争论围绕着美国劳工统计局（BLS）对非致命职业伤害的低估程度。我们开发的模型将伤害类别分开：劳工统计局年度调查，联邦政府，农业，州和地方政府，农业以外的个体户，以及所有其他。这些模型产生了不同的估计，这取决于与工作风险和漏报量有关的每个类别的假设。我们根据已发表的研究以及我们自己对BLS数据的分析为这些假设提供了理由。这些模型表明，年度调查遗漏了它旨在捕获的受伤人数（来自私营公司，不包括自雇人士）的0%至70%。然而，当我们包括公司和政府时，年度调查的目的不是为了捕捉，并考虑到关于漏报的合理假设，我们估计劳工统计局遗漏了33%至69%的伤害。我们的结论是，劳工统计局的年度调查中有大量的数据被低估，部分原因是政府工作人员和自雇人士的类别被排除在外，还有一些原因是少报。
Debate surrounds the size of the underestimate of nonfatal occupational injuries produced by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). We developed models that separated categories of injuries: BLS Annual Survey, federal government, agriculture, state and local government, self-employed outside agriculture, and all other. The models generated varying estimates depending on the assumptions for each category pertaining to job risks and amount of underreporting. We offered justification for the assumptions based on published studies as well as our own analyses of BLS data. The models suggested the Annual Survey missed from 0% to 70% of the number of injuries (from private firms, excluding the self-employed) it was designed to capture. However, when we included firms and governments the Annual Survey was not designed to capture, and considered reasonable assumptions regarding underreporting, we estimated the BLS missed between 33% and 69% of all injuries. We concluded that there was substantial undercapture in the BLS Annual Survey, some due to the excluded categories of government workers and the self-employed, as well as some due to underreporting.