According to the Centers for Disease Control (in an article by PT in Motion), the top category for work injuries is health care. One in five nonfatal work injuries are health care related. The main reason health care is tops in worker injury is due to physical harm caused by handling patients.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reviewed Occupation Health Safety Network (OHSN) data to reach its finding. The OHSN statistics examined over 100 health care facilities. The CDC analysis of the data concluded that handling patient injuries; slips and falls and workplace violence due to patients were leading factors of healthcare injuries.
Nurses and nurse assistants were injured the most often. Some of the reasons nurses and nurse assistants suffered injuries were due to patients who were overweight, long work shifts, too many patients for each nurse/nurse assistant to handle and the desire to get patients on their feet as quickly as possible.
The OHSN numbers also showed that better lifting equipment could help reduce the number of healthcare provider injuries. Better safety programs could also help.
While the finding did not specifically categorize physical therapies, other research shows that physical therapy is another high category for work related injuries.
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