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❑ All three methods report the number of accidents and/or fatalities for a fixed
number of workers during a specified period.
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𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡
𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 ×200,000
𝑂𝑆𝐻𝐴 𝐼𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑅𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 = 𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝐿𝐿 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑒
𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑
Lost Workdays (consecutive or not) days after but not including the day of the
injury or the illness during which the employee would have worked but could
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Deaths per person per year = (8 hr/person-day) x (300 days/yr) x (2 deaths/108 hr)
= 4.8 x 10-5 deaths per person-year
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The table indicates that canoeing is much more dangerous than traveling by motorcycle.
This phenomenon is due to the number of exposed hours. Canoeing produces more
fatalities per hour of activity than traveling by motorcycle. However, the total number of
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# 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 1.25, 1.26
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