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Work-related injuries, illnesses and deaths are costly to everyone. A safe and healthy work environment pays, in more ways than one.
In Maine each year about 17,000 workers lose time from work because of job-related injury or illness. The National Safety Council estimates the average cost of a lost-time injury to be $33,000 in 2002. That's $561,000,000 wasted each year in Maine alone.
At $170 billion a year nationwide, the direct and indirect costs of work injuries and illnesses equal those of cancer, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
These are only financial costs. There's no way to know the value of the quality of life lost to injuries and illnesses.
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