I happened to see this in the Wall Street Journal online today.

The U.S.’s system for measuring workplace safety is flawed and misses up to half of all workplace injuries, according to independent studies that will be presented Thursday at a hearing on the federal agency charged with protecting workers’ safety and health.

Here’s more…

Some safety experts say the underreporting problem is growing as more immigrants who typically underreport injuries enter the work force, and as more employers classify workers as independent contractors whose injuries aren’t tracked. Those issues are gaining traction in a Democratic-controlled Congress in light of recent construction accidents in New York and Las Vegas.

What’s sad is that the Republicans should be up in arms about this as well. That is if they truly represent the so called heartland middle class worker that they claim to.