- About 3.9 million employees are disabled at work in any given
year.
- One work related injury occurs every 8 seconds.
- Accidental overdose of iron pills is the leading cause of
poisoning deaths among children.
- Fire kills more Americans each year than ALL other natural
disasters combined.
- Nature requires over 5 years to get rid of a cigarette butt.
- The energy needed to make 1 new aluminum can makes 20 recycled
ones.
- About 8 out of every 10 adults will have a back injury in their
lives.
- On average about 400 people die from excess heat (heat stroke)
each year.
- Occupational skin diseases costs $1 billion annually in worker
comp costs claims.
- Of the 42,000 traffic fatalities in recent years, 41% were alcohol
related.
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