U.S. Department of Labor

Employment Standards Administration (ESA) is charged with enforcing and administering numerous Federal labor standards through four distinct programs: the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP); the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS); the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP); and the Wage and Hour Division (WHD).

Office of Workers' Compensation Programs administers three major disability compensation programs which provide wage replacement benefits, medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation and other benefits to certain workers or their dependents who experience work-related injury or occupational disease.

Alliance of American Insurers The Alliance of American Insurers ranks among the nation's top property/casualty Insurance trade associations and is recognized as a leading and responsible voice on critical legislative and regulatory issues.

Workers' Compensation Administrators Directory This information is provided by webmaster Robert W. McDowell last updated February 2, 1998. This Directory has Workers compensation links for each state.

OSHA Consultation Directory Occupational Safety and Health Administration contacts for every state.

Answers to Questions about Worker's Compensation In this space Julie will address your questions regarding the workers' compensation systems in California and other states. When submitting questions, be sure to indicate the state in which you live!

Work Injuries & Illnesses- Guide to Data Provides data on work related injuries. All private and public sector workers, military, self-employed and certain volunteers are included.

For National statistics, see the Bureau of Labor Statistics web site. http://stats.bls.gov/oshhome.htm

National Safety Council Work Injury & Illness Rates The National Safety Council's new 1998 Work Injury & Illness Rates offers you the information you need to benchmark your organization's occupational injury and illness records against others in your industry.

Transportation accidents leading cause of fatal work injuries, CONN-OSHA report ... Transportation-related incidents were the leading cause of fatal work injuries in five out of ten major industry divisions during the past five years according to a Department of Labor report released today. Overall, 38 percent of all Connecticut fatalities during the years 1992 to 1996 were the result of transportation incidents, mirroring a nationwide trend during that period, a Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) report prepared by the agency's CONN-OSHA division found.

NATIONAL CENSUS OF FATAL OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES, 1996 Largely as a result of reductions in job-related homicides and electrocutions, the number of fatal work injuries fell in 1996 to 6,112, the lowest level in the five-year history of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. The downward trend in the past two years reversed the increases reported in 1993 and 1994.

The mission of the South Carolina's Workers' Compensation Commission is to provide an equitable and timely system of benefits to injured workers and employers in the most responsive, accurate and reliable manner possible. Claims Department

Alabama's Workers' Compensation Division

Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation

Florida's Division of Workers' Compensation

North Carolina's Industrial Commission. North Carolina BENEFITS

Tennessee's Workers' Compensation Division

Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission

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