Repetititve Stress Injuries Not so Bad After All

By: Workers' Comp Executive

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- Injuries and illnesses attributed to repetitive typing or key entering have decreased for the third year in a row, reports PJ Edington, executive director of the Alexandria, VA-based Center for Office Technology (COT), after she dug into the just-released 1996 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).Edington cited statistics to prove her case: Repetitive typing or keying remains an insignificant 0.6 percent of 11,226 cases of the total 1,880,525 reported cases. The total number of injuries an

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