Worker Injury Rate Hits 'Record Low'

The Kentucky Labor Cabinet announced that the state’s recordable, nonfatal occupational injury and illness rate fell to the lowest point on record in fiscal year 2020. The injury rate in 2020 was 3.2 cases per 100 full-time workers, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The injury and illness rate in Kentucky was 8.4 in 1996 when the BLS started recording the data. Injury rates in Kentucky are still higher than the national average of three cases per 100 full-time workers. “While the incidence rate has steadily declined in recent years, there is still ...