Figure 8 –Crime-Related Injuries have the Second Highest Average Indemnity Severity While Severity for Struck by Fellow Worker or Patient is Below Average (Average Indemnity Payments per Claim, 2006 – 2008)


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In Act of Crime Fall/Slip/Trip Strain All


Cumulative Injuries Struck by


Misc. Causes Caught In Between Striking Against/Stepping On


Struck by Fellow Worker or Patient Burn


Cut/Puncture/Scrape Source: Reprinted with permission of NCCI from the NCCI Research Brief, 01/2012


Figure 9 – Crime Related Injuries have the Second Highest Average Medical Severity while Severity of Struck by Fellow Worker or Patient is Below Average.


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In Act of Crime Burn


Fall/Slip/Trip All


Caught In Between Struck by Strain


Striking Against/Stepping On Cumulative Injuries Misc. Causes


Struck by Fellow Worker or Patient Cut/Puncture/Scrape


Source: Reprinted with permission of NCCI from the NCCI Research Brief, 01/2012


Crime-related injuries are also 10 times more likely to involve a fatality than injuries due to other causes while the severity for injuries resulting from being struck or injured by fellow worker or patient is below average.10


The Facts on Workplace and Domestic Violence11


Domestic violence can follow victims to work, spilling over into the workplace when a victim is harassed, receives threatening phone calls, is absent because of injuries or is less productive due to extreme stress.


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