# All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Resulting from Non-Fatal Occupational Injuries

> **NIH ALLCDC R01** · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · 2020 · $338,988

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT
This study will use linked workers' compensation, the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File, and
National Death Index data to determine the impact of non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses on all-cause
and cause-specific mortality in Washington State. We will follow all workers with compensated lost-time
workplace injuries and illness with dates of injury between1994-2001 and a comparison group of workers in the
same time period with injuries involving no more than three days off work. We will follow this cohort through
2018, providing up to 25 years of mortality follow-up. This study will use separate Cox proportional hazards
regressions for men and women and for injured and comparison workers to estimate all-cause hazard of
mortality after the date of injury. To account for potential bias from unobserved confounders, information on
compensated workplace injuries and confounders from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), along with mortality-confounder relationships from the literature will inform
quantitative bias analysis.
We will use the Fine and Gray approach to analyze cause-specific mortality in this study and also examine all-
cause mortality hazard for injuries to different body parts.
This line of research can add a new dimension to our understanding of the burden of non-fatal occupational
injuries: their impact on mortality. In the past 10-15 years, researchers have found that after an occupational
injury, many workers suffer long-term declines in earnings in addition to chronic health impacts. The
investigators did an initial study in New Mexico showing increased mortality risk in the decades following injury.
The knowledge gained from this new project can be a step toward a more complete understanding the injury-
mortality link, enabling us to focus prevention on injuries that have the greatest effect on mortality.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9932186
- **Project number:** 5R01OH011511-03
- **Recipient organization:** BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
- **Principal Investigator:** LESLIE I. BODEN
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $338,988
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-30 → 2022-09-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9932186

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9932186, All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Resulting from Non-Fatal Occupational Injuries (5R01OH011511-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9932186. Licensed CC0.

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