Replication data for: Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss

This is the publicly-accessible portion of the dataset used to conduct the analysis for this study. It contains the following variables: a scrambled establishment ID that uniquely identifies each establishment, the establishment’s city, industry, year, year of random inspection, treated (has been randomly inspected), sales, employment, PAYDEX score, Composite Credit Appraisal. This dataset does not contain the following variables used in the analysis because of the confidentiality conditions under which they were obtained: establishment name, street address, ZIP code, DUNS number; annual payroll, injury count, injury cost, and average occupational riskiness. Researchers seeking full access to data on establishment names, addresses, DUNS numbers, sales, employment, PAYDEX scores, Composite Credit Appraisals, and industry (NAICS and SIC Codes) from the National Establishment Time-Series (NETS) database can contact Donald Walls, President, Walls & Associates (tel. [phone], [e-mail]). Researchers interested in obtaining data on the number and costs of workers’ compensation claims, occupational riskiness, payroll, and establishment names and addresses from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) may contact WCIRB’s Chief Actuary Dave Bellusci (tel. [phone], [e-mail]).