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

POISONING

Includes deaths from drugs, medicines, other solid and liquid substances, and gases and vapors. Excludes poisonings from spoiled foods,...
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...
Mar 2, 2018

DROWNING

Includes non-transport-related drownings such as those resulting from swimming, playing in the water, or falling in. Excludes drownings in...
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

WORKERS

Persons gainfully employed, including owners, managers, other paid employees, the self-employed and unpaid family workers, but excluding...
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...