Spinal cord injuries are one of the most common workplace injuries, with 128,220 back injury cases reported out of the 2,654,700 total workplace injuries reported in 2020. While spinal cord injuries are only one subset of these reported back injuries, they are substantially more serious
There is little question that sustaining an injury in the workplace can be life changing and cause physical, emotional, and financial hardship for the injured worker and their family. The injured worker is facing loss of employment and wages which could lead to debt, loss
The workers’ compensation industry is a data-rich field. Government boards and bureaus collect a wide-range of statistics—from broad overviews of the year to highly-detailed breakdowns of each reported case. In this blog, we’re looking at the state of Georgia statistics from the Georgia State Board