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May17
Lose Weight - Work Better - Less Injuries

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy has determined that the more overweight a person is, the more likely they will be injured on the job.

7,690 workers were classified into six categories:

1. underweightobese.worker.jpg

2. normal

3. overweight

4. obesity level I

5. obesity level II

6. obesity level III.

29% of the workers were injured at least once between 1/2/02 and 12/31/04.

A whopping 85% of those injured were overweight or obese.

28% were overweight.

30% were in level I or II.

34% were in level III.
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The severely obese had the most injuries to their hand/wrist/fingers as well. (22%).

It seems to me some of these folk need that 'vertical workstation' created by the Mayo Clinic.

Have you ever been injured at work? How's your waistline?

 


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