SACRAMENTO - On May 8 the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a report on the characteristics of injuries and illnesses resulting in absences from work in 1994. These are the high risk industries, based on findings from the national survey in private industry. In each case the number in parenthesis is the incidence rate per 10,000 workers.Overexertion, by far the most common disabling event or exposure, particularly affected nursing home work (318) and air transport (307)."Struck by object" was a
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