Small Businesses and Workplace Fatality Risk

Download or read book Small Businesses and Workplace Fatality Risk written by John M. Mendeloff and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 55 percent of Americans are employed in businesses with fewer than 100 workers. Policymakers have taken action to lessen regulatory burden on small business. However, small establishments-single physical locations-have much higher rates of deaths or serious injuries than do larger establishments. This study examined the relationship between fatality rate and business size, both in terms of establishment size and firm size, from 1992 to 2001.