We are lucky to have a 1.7% rate of serious injury/fatality in the US on a full time worker per year situation.
Where did that figure come from? That would indicate that if you work full-time for forty years, you've got a roughly fifty-fifty chance of serious injury or fatality (or about a thirty percent chance over twenty years).
That seems far, far too high. Is this a particular kind of worker? I'm sure I'd notice if about half of all employees didn't make it to retirement without being killed or seriously injured.
Perhaps I was using a different definition than you were expecting but 'serious injury' to me means serious enough that it impacts your ability to perform your job, at least temporarily.
Injuries and illnesses by type of case
Over half of the more than 3.0 million private industry injury and illness cases reported in 2013 were of
a more serious nature that involved days away from work, job transfer, or restriction (DART cases).
These cases occurred at a rate of 1.7 cases per 100 full-time workers, a statistically significant decrease
from 2012. (See table 7.) The rates for the two components of DART cases--cases involving days away
from work and cases requiring job transfer or restriction--was unchanged at 1.0 and 0.7 case per 100
workers, respectively, in 2013. Other recordable cases--those not involving days away from work, job
transfer, or restriction--accounted for the remaining 1.4 million injury and illness cases in 2013 and was
unchanged at a rate of 1.6 cases per 100 full-time workers.
The TRC injury and illness incidence rate remained highest in 2013 among mid-size private industry
establishments (those employing between 50 and 249 workers) and lowest among small establishments
(those employing fewer than 11 workers). (See table 3 and chart 2.)
Where did that figure come from? That would indicate that if you work full-time for forty years, you've got a roughly fifty-fifty chance of serious injury or fatality (or about a thirty percent chance over twenty years).
That seems far, far too high. Is this a particular kind of worker? I'm sure I'd notice if about half of all employees didn't make it to retirement without being killed or seriously injured.