title: The impact of non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses on mortality.
abstract: Little research has examined the relationship between non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses, and long-term mortality.
  
  
  
  We linked non-fatal injury cases reported to the New Mexico workers' compensation system for 1994-2000 with Social Security Administration data on individual earnings and mortality through 2014. We then derived sex-specific Kaplan-Meier curves to show time to death for workers with lost-time injuries (n = 36,377) and comparison workers (n = 70,951). We fit multivariable Cox survival models to estimate the hazard ratio separately for male and female workers with lost-time injuries.
  
  
  
  The estimated hazard ratio for lost-time injuries is 1.24 for women and 1.21 for men. Ninety-five percent confidence intervals were 1.15, 1.35 and 1.15, 1.27, respectively.
  
  
  
  Lost-time occupational injuries are associated with a substantially elevated mortality hazard. This implies an important formerly unmeasured cost of these injuries and a further reason to focus on preventing them. Am. J. Ind. Med. 59:1061-1069, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Leslie I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Boden
authors.affiliation: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Retirement and Disability Policy, Washington, District of Columbia.
authors.forename: Paul K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: O'Leary
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia.
authors.forename: Katie M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Applebaum
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Yorghos
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tripodis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009516:New Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D060051:Occupational Injuries / Q000401:mortality*; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D014481:United States; D019131:United States Social Security Administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014942:Workers' Compensation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017132:Workplace / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cox regression; all-cause mortality; occupational injury and illness