Did You Know?

• OSHA came into being in 1971.
• Since OSHA's inception, the rate of workplace fatalities has decreased by more than 60 percent.
• The rate of occupational injuries has diminished by more than 40 percent since OSHA began.
• About 40% of deaths and disabling injuries involving workers happen while away from work.
• The average work-related injury cost the employer about $16,500.
• Motor-vehicle accidents account for approximately 50% of all accidental deaths in the U.S.
• More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the U.S.
• Natural gas has no smell. The rotten-egg smell is added so that people will be able to notice or identify when a leak has occured.
• Every 45 seconds a house catches fire in the U.S.
• Firemen have the most dangerous job in America.
• According to NSC, a toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
• 1 million people are bitten by animals per year in the U.S. and about 30,000 of the victims must be treated for rabies.
• Approximately 70 people die per day in home accidents in the U.S.
• According to NSC, there is 1 accidental death every 5 mins in America and there is a major injury every 3 seconds.