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Texas: highest rate of deaths

ved Alicia Paz Oct 30, 2024

Texas: highest rate of deaths

CDC: Texas has the highest rate of deaths in the USA: 219

More than 200 % higher than the second highest rate: 48. 

 

 

Financial implications: 

1. Direct Costs: $ 1,390,000 per fatal occupational injury 

2. Indirect Costs: 

○ Lost Productivity and Absenteeism

Total cost of each lost-workday cases (LWCs) is $1.2 million

and each OSHA recordable – medical treatment (RMT) or restricted-workday case (RWC) – is 

$ 75,000.