Under-reporting of Workers Compensation injuries distorts nation’s safety report card
Romanucci & Blandin was pleased to receive word that the U.S. House of Representative’s Committee on Education and Labor is investigating the U.S. Department of Labor’s longstanding failure to collect accurate data on workplace injuries and illnesses. Testimony presented to the committee this week in Washington calls into question the agency’s claims that workplaces are getting safer and healthier.
“Without accurate injury and illness statistics, employers and workers are unable to identify and address safety and health hazards, and policy makers are unable to assess the state of workplace safety in this country,” said U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the committee. “We simply must not allow a lack of information to permit hazardous working conditions to go unaddressed, putting workers’ limbs and lives at risk.”
