An Eye on Safety

By: Cal-OSHA Reporter - The leading occupational safety and health publication in California.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- Eye injuries to workers cost American businesses more than $300 million in lost production, medical expenses and workers' compensation, according to Prevent Blindness America (PBA), a Chicago, Ill., organization.Ninety percent of all job-related eye injuries are preventable, the group says. One-fourth of all eye injuries happen at work and almost two thirds were to workers in the prime 25-44 age category. Up to 50 percent of them happen because the worker is not wearing any eye protecti

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