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The latest Economics Daily article is available here: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/private-industry-workers-suffered-14500-hearing-loss-cases-in-2019.htm. Highlights are below. Private industry workers suffered 14,500 hearing loss cases in 2019 06/30/2021 There were 14,500 work-related hearing loss illness cases in 2019. They occurred at a rate of 1.4 cases per 10,000 full-time workers. These cases accounted for 11.4 percent of the 127,200 private industry illness cases. Ten years earlier, 11.7 percent of private industry illness cases were due to hearing loss illnesses (19,500 cases), and they occurred at a rate of 2.2 per 10,000 full-time workers. HTML

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