Texas employees missed fewer work days in 2007 - Houston Business Journal:

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Employers throughout the statereported 69,320 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses in 2007 that requiresd time off from work. This is a 4.6 percenf reduction over 2006. The state data was compileed by the Bureau of Labor Statisticws Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnessex using figures furnished bythe workers’ compensation division of the . Texaes employees missed a median nine days from work in 2007 due to illnesxsand injury, higher than the seven days reported nationally and highef than the state’s previous year’s rate of eightf days missed from work in 2006. The survety also reveals that therewere 94.
3 injuriees and illnesses per 10,000o full-time equivalent employees in Texas in well below the national rate of 122 per 10,00 employees. The full report is availabler online byclicking .