Businesses Spend More Than $1 Billion a Week on Serious, Nonfatal Workplace Injuries
New research from Liberty Mutual places a dollar amount on the cost of serious, nonfatal workplace injuries to American businesses.
According to the 2017 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index, serious, nonfatal workplace injuries now amount to nearly $60 billion in direct U.S. workers’ compensation costs per year. This translates into more than $1 billion dollars a week spent by businesses on these injuries.
