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    What Industrial Categories Are Workers at Excess Risk of Filing a COVID-19 Workers' Compensation Claim? A Study Conducted in 11 Midwestern US States

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    Bernacki, Edward J
    Hunt, Dan L
    Yuspeh, Larry
    Lavin, Robert A
    Kalia, Nimisha
    Leung, Nina
    Tsourmas, Nicholas F
    Williams, Leila
    Tao, Xuguang Grant
    Date
    2021-05
    Journal
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
    Publisher
    Wolters Kluwer Health
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    Article
    
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    https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000002126
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    OBJECTIVE: Determine the industries with the highest proportion of accepted COVID-19 related workers' compensation (WC) claims. METHODS: Study included 21,336 WC claims (1898 COVID-19 and 19,438 other claims) that were filed between January 1, 2020 and August 31, 2020 from 11 states in the Midwest United States. RESULT: The overwhelming proportion of all COVID-19 related WC claims submitted and accepted were from healthcare workers (83.77%). Healthcare was the only industrial classification that was at significantly higher COVID-19 WC claim submission risk (odds ratio [OR]: 4.00; 95% confidence intervals [CI]: 2.77 to 5.79) controlling for type of employment, sex, age, and presumption of COVID-19 work-relatedness. Within healthcare employment, WC claims submitted by workers in medical laboratories had the highest risk (crude rate ratio of 8.78). CONCLUSION: Healthcare employment is associated with an increased risk of developing COVID-19 infections and submitting a workers' compensation claim.
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    Worker's compensation claims
    COVID-19
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    10.1097/JOM.0000000000002126
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