More older workers are dying on the job

[IDemo]

The nation's oldest workers are dying on the job - losing their lives at more than triple the rate of all workers.

The U.S. Labor Department reported last week that 1,691 workers over age 55 died in 2014 - the highest number ever recorded for this group, and more than one in three of the 4,821 people killed on the job that year.

Workers over 65 were particularly affected, with 10.7 per 100,000 workers killed on the job, compared with the all-worker injury rate of 3.4 per 100,000.

The statistic doesn't surprise Barbara Rahke, director of PhilaPOSH, an advocacy group that works to promote safe conditions on the job.

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20160423_More_older_workers_are_dying_on_the_job.html#gLXvllUSV3E7bmMY.99

[FreakinDJ]

1. Lets RAISE the Social Security Age

[brush]

2. You mean lower it, right?

WTH would you ask for raising it on an OP about older workers dying on the job?

If it was lower they would maybe be collecting SS instead of still having to work.

[FreakinDJ]

3. Sorry I didn't use the sarcasm thingy

Means Testing Social Security will be just as disastrous.

[Doctor_J]

5. You must be a Clinton supporter

Her majesty wants everyone to work to age seventy.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. I thought the sarcasm was obvious. nt

[Doctor_J]

10. Me too

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Oops...

I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue

[silvershadow]

4. My mom is in her 70's and still works full time because she can't afford not to. nt

[Doctor_J]

6. Many of these people would be retired if the president and the congress hadn't conspired with

The insurance industry to make them pay through the nose for shitty healthcare.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. My mother in law is in a nursing home...

last year, they took most of her Social Security for expenses, leaving $100 a month for her use. This year her Medicare costs went up, and of course rent didn't go down. Now they take all, plus the extra $40 a month we have to toss in. I would bring her home, but with my wife's health issues there is no way she could take care of her. She is now 90, and before we put her in she started falling, and my wife couldn't get her up anymore. I sure hope that euthanasia is allowed by the time I get old. I am 48, and Wall Street is going to get that SS money one day. I have 401k, but you have better odds in Vegas. I often quip that my retirement plan is to rent a Harley, and drive it off the Grand Canyon while firing a flair into the gas tank. Better to go out quick.

[Dont call me Shirley]

12. Don't vote DLC, then you will have your SS and with a big increase!

[dembotoz]

13. i hear you, my hope uipon getting a bad prognosis i have sufficient facilities for a stop at cabella

get me an assistance device

[awoke_in_2003]

14. The downside

is that most life insurance is nullified in the case of suicide.

[1939]

15. Good policies

have a one to three year limitation on their suicide clause.

[awoke_in_2003]

16. Oh, okay

I will have to check mine. I would hate to flush $350k that my family could use down the toilet.

[1939]

17. The "suicide clause" in life insurance

Keeps people contemplating suicide from going out and insuring themselves to the hilt before they do the deed. In the same way that you can't get a policy if you have terminal cancer. A good analogy would be property insurance companies not writing new windstorm insurance policies while a hurricane is heading their way.

[lostnfound]

18. And if social security had been properly cared for. Nt

[Octafish]

8. That's why smart companies invest in dead peasant insurance.

Works for Walmart.