Abstract：
All US nursing homes are required to report workplace injury and illness data to the Occupational Safety And Health Administration (OSHA). Nevertheless, the compliance rate for US nursing homes during the period 2016-21 was only 40 percent. We examined whether unionization increases the probability that nursing homes will comply with that requirement. Using a difference-in-differences design and proprietary data on union status from the Service Employees International Union for all forty-eight continental US states from the period 2016-21, we found that two years after unionization, nursing homes were 31.1 percentage points more likely than nonunion nursing homes to report workplace injury and illness data to OSHA. Data on injuries occurring in specific workplaces play a central role in injury prevention. Further unionization could help improve workplace safety in nursing homes, a sector with one of the highest occupational injury and illness rates in the US.
摘要：
所有美国疗养院都必须向职业安全与健康管理局（OSHA）报告工作场所伤害和疾病数据。然而，2016-21年期间，美国疗养院的合规率仅为40%。我们研究了工会化是否会增加养老院遵守该要求的可能性。使用2016-21年期间美国所有48个大陆州的服务员工国际工会的差异设计和工会地位的专有数据，我们发现工会成立两年后，养老院向OSHA报告工作场所伤害和疾病数据的可能性比不工会养老院高31.1个百分点.在特定工作场所发生的伤害数据在伤害预防中起着核心作用。进一步的工会可以帮助改善疗养院的工作场所安全，这是美国职业伤害和疾病发生率最高的行业之一。
