Mar 7, 2018
DISASTER EVENTS
For the purposes of Injury Facts, disaster events are preventable injury events that result in five or more deaths. Disaster events include...
Mar 2, 2018
STRUCK BY OR AGAINST
Includes death resulting from a strike by or against an object or other...
Mar 2, 2018
MECHANICAL SUFFOCATION
Includes deaths from hanging and strangulation, and suffocation in enclosed or confined spaces; cave-ins; or by bed clothes, plastic bags,...
Mar 2, 2018
FIRE, FLAMES OR SMOKE
Includes deaths from exposure to fire, flames, or smoke, and from injuries in fires such as falls and struck by falling objects. Excludes...
Jan 9, 2018
OPIOID DRUGS
Opioids encompass both prescription and illegal painkillers and include: heroin, natural and synthetic opioids (such as oxycodone,...
Dec 26, 2017
WORK/MOTOR-VEHICLE DUPLICATION
The cost of motor-vehicle crashes that involves people in the course of their work is included in both classes, but the duplication is...
Dec 26, 2017
WORK INJURIES (INCLUDING OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES)
Injuries that arise out of and in the course of gainful employment regardless of where the accident or exposure occurs. Excluded are work...