Occupational Vehicular Accidents: A Workers' Compensation Analysis of Oregon Truck Drivers 1990-1997

Brian McCall and Irwin B. Horwitz ()

Working Papers from Human Resources and Labor Studies, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus)

Abstract: This study used workers' compensation data from Oregon from 1990-1997 to examine injuries due to vehicular accidents by truck drivers, and calculate rate estimates using baseline data derived from the U.S. Bureau of Census' Current Population Survey. During this period, 1,168 valid injury claims due to vehicular accidents were filed representing an accident rate of 50.3% (95% C.I. = 45.1-55.5) per 10,000 truck drivers annually. There were 19 work-related vehicular accident fatalities recorded in the data over the 8-year period. Of all claimants, males constituted the majority (80.7%), most were 35 years of age or younger (51.4%) and had less than 1 year of job tenure (51.0%). Truck driver injury rates due to vehicular accidents were lowest during the 6:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. period. The average amount of compensable lost workdays per injury claim was 57.8 days, of which male claimants lost an average of 60.5 days of work and females lost an average of 46.9 days of work. The amount of lost work days due to vehicular accident increased with the claimant's age. A total of $11,642,635 was paid in claims for vehicular accidents of truck drivers in Oregon over the period examined, averaging $9,966.01 per claim. Sprains were the most frequently cited injury experienced from vehicular accidents.

Keywords: vehicular accidents; driving; truck drivers; workers' compensation; public health; workplace safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.legacy-irc.csom.umn.edu/RePEC/hrr/papers/0503.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 500 Can't connect to www.legacy-irc.csom.umn.edu:443 (Bad file descriptor) (http://www.legacy-irc.csom.umn.edu/RePEC/hrr/papers/0503.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.legacy-irc.csom.umn.edu/RePEC/hrr/papers/0503.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hrr:papers:0503

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Human Resources and Labor Studies, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mary Helen Walker ().