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In 2005, Kimberly-Clark’s Conway, Arkansas, manufacturing facility launched a pilot program with InjuryFree, Inc., to reduce musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace, particularly those injuries resulting from microtrauma and repetitive stress. After three years of continuous program operation, injuries and related costs at the Conway facility have shown a significant and steady decline.
Kimberly-Clark’s Conway, Ark., plant reduced its musculoskeletal incidents by 50 percent following installation of an on-site Employee Maintenance Center (EMC). Improvements in reportable incident rates have continued each year since the EMC launched in 2004. At a sister plant 20 miles down the road in Maumelle, reportable incidents fell from eight to zero in the year following the launch of its center.
For the first few years after K-C acquired the Everett mill, workers’ compensation costs held steady. Then, at the end of 2002, the mill tallied it’s annual workers’ comp outlay and the result looked like a computation error: costs had plummeted in just 12 months… What could possibly lead to such a dramatic drop in on-the-job injuries and, thus, workers’ compensation costs?
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