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 JHunt, Dan L
Yuspeh, Larry
Lavin, Robert A
Kalia, Nimisha
Leung, Nina
Tsourmas, Nicholas F
Williams, Leila
Tao, Xuguang Grant
Date
2021-05Journal
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicinePublisher
Wolters Kluwer HealthType
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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.Rights/Terms
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http://hdl.handle.net/10713/15840ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1097/JOM.0000000000002126
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