COT....Government Welfare

[Teatownclown]

Tulsa's workers-compensation incidents astronomical


http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20111109_16_A1_Twoyea370329


"OSHA's incidence rates measure the number of work-related injuries and illnesses per 100 workers. The national average for all workers was 3.8 last year. For private industry, it's a little lower - 3.5.

For local government workers it's higher - 6.1. That's not surprising, because local government workers include most of the nation's police and firefighters, plus a large contingent of workers involved in construction- and maintenance-related jobs.

But the city of Tulsa's incident rates are astronomical, even by those standards. The overall rate - 25.6 - was more than four times the national average."

One word to describe this: corrupt.


Where are all you haters of the welfare state?

Jam on

[carltonplace]

Incident rates for firefighters are normally high, and for obvious reasons, but Tulsa's are even higher. Beyer said her office's investigation has shown that two-thirds of the department's claims are for injuries suffered in fire stations.

What are they doing in the fire station that is causing injury?

This is not a worker issue it a management issue. Management is allowing this abuse (if it is actual abuse and not a few egregious injuries).

[Teatownclown]

What political hacks and hypocrites we have here at TNF. It's hard for me to witness no outrage over out and out fraud by those who have sworn oaths to the citizenry.

This is welfare fraud.

And many of you call yourselves good conservatives.....

Please, no more attacking the poor, the powerless, and the recipients of government help.

[dbacks fan]

From the article

Because the city is self-insured, workers compensation costs affect taxpayers in two ways.

One is the $5.1 million in general revenues allocated this year for claims covered by the employee insurance service fund. This money comes almost entirely from sales taxes, and every dollar spent on workers compensation is a dollar not spent for city services and facilities.

The second is the $2 million to $5 million a year paid from the city's sinking fund to cover claims of $5,000 or more. The sinking fund is replenished from property taxes, which are adjusted annually according to the claims against the fund.

When you are self insured, of course it's going to affect the budget. Also claims have decreased in the last couple of years. Also the majority of the claims are from the most dangerous jobs.

[Teatownclown]

Well, maybe my frame of reference is whacked because of the freeloaders I've encountered over the years who are out of shape, don't lead healthy life styles, or were just looking for a safety net to retire in.