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Danger Zone

Danger Zone

Car accidents are the leading cause of injury by cost for NADL members insured through Meadowbrook Insurance Group. NADL members' average claim cost is $10,411. That is 132 percent more than the average claim of Meadowbrook customers.

Cause

Claims

Percent of Cost

Average Cost Per Incident

Car Accident

16

35%

$22,518

Strain or Injury by

Repetitive Motion

 

10

 

21%

 

$21,394

Strain or Injury by Lifting

  3

16%

$57,010

Rubbed or Abraded by

Repetitive Motion

 

  5

 

15%

$31,026

All Other Strains

10

  7%

$7,232

Fall or Slip

  6

  2%

$3,089

Strike Against or Step On

  4

  1%

$3,595

Cut, Puncture, Scrape

By Object Being Lifted

or Handled

 

 

23

 

 

  1%

 

 

$237

Miscellaneous

  6

  1%

$1,705

Other Cuts, Punctures

or Scrapes

 

11

 

  1%

 

$594

Struck or Injured

10

  0%

$465

Foreign Body in Eye

15

  0%

$251

Fall or Slip From Different

Level

 

  2

 

  0%

 

$1,245

Burn or Scald

  7

  0%

$294

Caught In, Under or Between

  2

  0%

$809

Source: Meadowbrook Insurance Group


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