Healthcare settings with the most workplace injuries

Ambulance services had the highest rates of workplace injuries while dentists’ officers had the lowest, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found.

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The total incident rate in 2021 for hospitals was 6.1 per 100 full-time workers, compared to 10.5 for ambulance services. 

Here are facility rates ranked by total incident rates:

  1. Ambulance services: 10.5
  2. Nursing and residential care facilities: 7.3
  3. Psychiatric and substance use hospitals: 7.1
  4. General medical and surgical hospitals: 6.1
  5. Specialty hospitals (except psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals): 5.1
  6. Outpatient care centers: 3.9
  7. All other ambulatory health care services: 3.7
  8. Home health care services: 2.6
  9. Ambulatory health care services: 2.5
  10. Offices of other health practitioners: 2.4
  11. Offices of physicians: 2
  12. Medical and diagnostic laboratories: 1.9
  13. Offices of dentists: 1.3
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