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Health Care and Social Assistance

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Table 5. Number (and Incidence Rates in Cases/10,000 Full-Time Workers) of Assaults and Violent Acts Injuries Involving Days Away From Work, Healthcare and Social Assistance Sector, 2006

Ambulatory healthcare services


Healthcare and Social Assistance Subsector NAICS code Assaults/Violent Acts Injuries
Ambulatory healthcare services 621 900 (2.1)
  Physician offices 6211 140  (0.8)
  Dental offices 6212 -  (-)
  Offices of other health practitioners 6213 120  (2.9)
  Outpatient care centers 6214 180  (4.6)
  Medical and diagnostic laboratories 6215 20  (1.3)
  Home healthcare services 6216 330  (5.5)
  Other ambulatory healthcare services 6219 100  (5.3)

Hospitals


Healthcare and Social Assistance Subsector NAICS code Assaults/Violent Acts Injuries
Subtotal: Hospitals 622 2,910  (8.4)
  General medical and surgical hospitals 6221 2,180  (6.7)
  Psychiatric & substance abuse hospitals 6222 640  (84.3)
  Specialty hospitals (ex. 6221 and 6222) 6223 90  (6.9)

Nursing and residential care facilities


Healthcare and Social Assistance Subsector NAICS code Assaults/Violent Acts Injuries
Subtotal: Nursing and residential care facilities 623 4,940  (21.8)
  Nursing care facilities 6231 2,000  (16.1)
  Residential care facilities 6232 1,470  (35.8)
  Community care facilities 6233 510  (10.5)
  Other residential care facilities 6239 960  (70.0)

Social assistance


Healthcare and Social Assistance Subsector NAICS code Assaults/Violent Acts Injuries
Social assistance 624 1,380  (8.30)
  Individual and family services 6241 930  (122.8)
  Community food and housing and  emergency and other relief services 6242 80  (7.4)
  Vocational rehabilitation services 6243 260  (11.1)
  Child day care services 6244 110  (1.9)

Totals


Healthcare and Social Assistance Subsector NAICS code Assaults/Violent Acts Injuries
Total, healthcare and social assistance sector 62 10,130  (8.8)
Total, Private Industry (16 years and older)   22,430  (2.4)

Dash (-) indicates that data were not available for this NAICS code;
Numbers of cases were rounded off to the nearest 100 workers and were extracted from 2006 BLS Table R4 http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osh/case/ostb1796.txt  and Table R8      http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osh/case/ostb1800.txt (External links)



Page last updated:September 26, 2008
Page last reviewed:October 20, 2008
Content Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Division of Respiratory Disease Studies


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