While the number of private employer-reported nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses did not change between 2016 and 2017, the state has a higher incidence rate than the national average, federal labor officials said Friday.
Private-sector companies here reported 37,600 such ailments last year, which amounted to 3.2 cases per 100 full-time workers, compared to a U.S. average of 2.8, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Connecticut wasn’t alone, as 19 other states had incidence rates statistically higher than the private-sector national average. The worst was Maine, at a rate of 4.8 cases per 100 workers, followed by Vermont, with a rate of 4.6, BLS said.
Meanwhile, Connecticut also had above-average injury and illness rates among its state and local government employees last year.
There were 8,900 cases reported, or 6.2 cases per 100 workers, compared with a national rate of 4.6. About three-quarters of Connecticut’s government cases occurred at the municipal level, according to BLS.
