Michaels David, Wagner Gregory R
David Michaels is with the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC. Gregory R. Wagner is with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Am J Public Health. 2025 Apr;115(4):588-595. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2024.307934. Epub 2025 Feb 13.
Millions of US workers are seriously injured on the job annually. These injuries have a significant and deleterious impact on injured workers, their families, and their communities. The limitations of the historical work injury surveillance systems have constrained research into the distribution and determinants of work injuries and efforts to improve allocation of limited injury prevention resources. Most work injury data sets suffer from significant limitations and fail to include a sizable proportion of work injuries. In recent years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has begun to collect and make available to the public more detailed data on work injuries at thousands of high hazard establishments. These data sets provide the opportunity to greatly improve our work injury surveillance system. Researchers are now using these data to investigate and compare injury risk in industries and high-hazard firms where workers are at increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders. However, these rich data sets are underused. Maintaining and facilitating access to accurate, current data can contribute to improved prevention of work-related injuries and deaths. (. 2025;115(4):588-595. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307934).
美国每年有数百万工人在工作中受重伤。这些伤害对受伤工人、他们的家庭以及他们所在的社区产生重大且有害的影响。历史工伤监测系统的局限性限制了对工伤分布和决定因素的研究，以及改善有限的工伤预防资源分配的努力。大多数工伤数据集存在重大局限性，未能涵盖相当比例的工伤案例。近年来，美国职业安全与健康管理局已开始收集并向公众提供数千家高风险企业更详细的工伤数据。这些数据集为大幅改进我们的工伤监测系统提供了契机。研究人员现在正利用这些数据调查和比较各行业以及工人肌肉骨骼疾病风险增加行业中的高风险企业的受伤风险。然而，这些丰富的数据集未得到充分利用。维护并促进获取准确、最新的数据有助于更好地预防与工作相关的伤害和死亡。（《美国公共卫生杂志》. 2025;115(4):588 - 595. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307934）
