The percentage of people who were injured at work and died of an overdose from 2011 to 2020 was 35 percent higher than the percentage of all working-age people in the state who died of the same cause.
This finding is consistent with evidence suggesting common use of prescribed opioids for the management of acute and chronic pain following a work-related injury.
The study used the DPH's Public Health Data Warehouse to link information about people's employment and work injury history with death certificate data, providing a more comprehensive look into the connection between workplace injury and cause of death.
Among workers who were injured on the job and later died, those who died from opioid overdoses were more likely to be construction or food workers than they were to work in other industries.
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