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Hospital workers are far more likely than employees in any other industry to develop an occupational illness. In 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics logged about 17,000 such illnesses in hospitals. Yet safety experts say it’s still just the tip of the iceberg. No one knows just how big that iceberg is.

Underreporting puts HCWs at risk of the unknown