AmTrust: Compensable Injuries Among Food Workers Decrease

The total number of compensable work injuries in the U.S. food manufacturing sector decreased post-pandemic, with a 13% decline in workers’ compensation claims from pre-COVID-19 levels, according to a report by AmTrust Financial Services Inc. The specialty insurer examined 15,000 comp claims in food manufacturing between 2018 and 2022, finding that general workplace injuries were down in 2020, 2021 and 2022, at the height of the global pandemic. In general, workplace injuries in the food industry were down post-pandemic compared with 2019, even as the sector dealt with labor shortages,...