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    An incidence rate is a measurement of the number of injuries and illnesses occurring among 100 full-time workers over the course of a year. To calculate an incidence rate, you count the number of injuries/illnesses recorded on an OSHA Form 300 and divide that number by the total number of hours worked in a year, then multiply the result by 200,000. This allows comparison to industry standards. Incidence rates can be calculated for total recordable cases or cases involving days away from work to identify safety issues.

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    An incidence rate is a measurement of the number of injuries and illnesses occurring among 100 full-time workers over the course of a year. To calculate an incidence rate, you count the number of injuries/illnesses recorded on an OSHA Form 300 and divide that number by the total number of hours worked in a year, then multiply the result by 200,000. This allows comparison to industry standards. Incidence rates can be calculated for total recordable cases or cases involving days away from work to identify safety issues.

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    An incidence rate is a measurement of the number of injuries and illnesses occurring among 100 full-time workers over the course of a year. To calculate an incidence rate, you count the number of injuries/illnesses recorded on an OSHA Form 300 and divide that number by the total number of hours worked in a year, then multiply the result by 200,000. This allows comparison to industry standards. Incidence rates can be calculated for total recordable cases or cases involving days away from work to identify safety issues.

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    Calculating Injury and Illness Incidence Rates

    U.S. Department of Labor

    Occupational Safety and Health Administration

    What is an incidence rate?


    An incidence rate is the number of recordable
    injuries and illnesses occurring among a given
    number of full-time workers (usually 100 fulltime workers) over a given period of time
    (usually one year). To evaluate your firms
    injury and illness experience over time or to
    compare your firms experience with that of
    your industry as a whole, you need to compute
    your incidence rate. Because a specific number
    of workers and a specific period of time are
    involved, these rates can help you identify
    problems in your workplace and/or progress
    you may have made in preventing workrelated injuries and illnesses.
    How do you calculate an incidence
    rate?
    You can compute an occupational injury and
    illness incidence rate for all recordable cases or
    for cases that involved days away from work for
    your firm quickly and easily. The formula
    requires that you follow instructions in
    paragraph (a) below for the total recordable
    cases or those in paragraph (b) for cases that
    involved days away from work, and for both
    rates the instructions in paragraph (c).
    (a) To find out the total number of recordable
    injuries and illnesses that occurred during the year,
    count the number of line entries on your
    OSHA Form 300, or refer to the OSHA Form
    300A and sum the entries for columns (G), (H),
    (I), and (J).
    (b) To find out the number of injuries and
    illnesses that involved days away from work, count
    the number of line entries on your OSHA
    Form 300 that received a check mark in
    column (H), or refer to the entry for column

    (H) on the OSHA Form 300A.


    (c) The number of hours all employees actually
    worked during the year. Refer to OSHA Form
    300A and optional worksheet to calculate this
    number.
    You can compute the incidence rate for all
    recordable cases of injuries and illnesses using
    the following formula:
    Total number of injuries and illnesses X 200,000
    Number of hours worked by all employees = Total
    recordable case rate
    (The 200,000 figure in the formula represents
    the number of hours 100 employees working
    40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year would
    work, and provides the standard base for
    calculating incidence rates.)
    You can compute the incidence rate for
    recordable cases involving days away from
    work, days of restricted work activity or job
    transfer (DART) using the following formula:

    various classifications (e.g., by industry, by


    employer size, etc.). You can obtain these
    published data at www.bls.gov/iif or by calling a
    BLS Regional Office.

    Worksheet

    Number of
    hours worked
    by all employees

    Total number of
    injuries and illnesses

    X 200,000

    Total recordable
    case rate

    (Number of entries in column H + Number of


    entries in column I) X 200,000 Number of hours
    worked by all employees = DART incidence rate
    You can use the same formula to calculate
    incidence rates for other variables such as cases
    involving restricted work activity (column (I)
    on Form 300A), cases involving skin disorders
    (column (M-2) on Form 300A), etc. Just
    substitute the appropriate total for these cases,
    from Form 300A, into the formula in place of
    the total number of injuries and illnesses.

    What can I compare my incidence


    rate to?
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) conducts
    a survey of occupational injuries and illnesses
    each year and publishes incidence rate data by

    Number of
    hours worked
    by all employees

    Number of entries in
    Column H + Column I

    X 200,000

    DART incidence
    rate

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