Some public expenses in connection with occupational accidents. A follow-up study of an emergency department material.

An attempt has been made to calculate some of the public expenses arising from occupational accidents, by means of a follow-up study of an ad hoc emergency department investigation of 6 941 consecutive cases. Each accident has given rise, on average, to two visits to a physician, and to hospitalization for 1.1 days. During a one-year period, the expenses of sick benefits, hospital admissions, and medical treatment alone for the whole of Denmark amount to a minimum of 1.2 milliard 1982 Danish kroner, and at least 8 900 man-working-years have been lost.