It may cost an arm and a leg: workers value and occupational fatality rates in the U.S.

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Hypotheses testing results based on a regression analysis

	DV = Log-Transformed Average Fatality Rates
	B (SE)	p-value	Lower 95% CI	Upper 95% CI
(Intercept)	1.33 (.04)	0.000	1.25	1.42
Study Variables	− 0.09 (0.04)	0.042
Average WCB in 2015			−0.17	− 0.00
Minimum Wage in 2015	−0.11 (0.05)	0.024	−0.20	− 0.02
Contextual Variables
Education Level in 2015	−0.33 (0.06)	0.000	−0.46	− 0.21
GDP per capita in 2015	0.22 (0.06)	0.001	0.10	0.35
Control Variables
Population in 2010	−0.07 (0.04)	0.076	−0.16	0.01

Average WCB $ Average of workers’ compensation benefits for the loss of an arm, hand, leg, or foot in 2015, Minimum wage $USD, data from 2015, Education Level % college degree earned in 2015, GDP per capita gross domestic product per capita in 2015, Population National census data from 2010, DV Log-transformed average fatality rates in 2015–2017, the number of workers killed at work per 100,000 workers

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