Computation of recordable injury/illness rate
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A company calculated its recordable injury/illness rate for 2013 to be 2.81. Employees worked 1,209,970 hours in 2013. How many recordable injuries/illnesses were there?
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This is a computation of recordable injury/illness rates based on OSHA standards.
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This can be interpreted as: For every 100 employees, 2.81 employees have been involved in a recordable injury or illness. Since there are 40 hours per work-week and 50 weeks a year of work, we can say that actual recordable injuries/illness rate is 17 employees.
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