A study from the National Safety Council determined that assaults are the most common cause of workplace injuries for women.

Women make up 70 percent of all nonfatal assault-related injuries involving days away from work and are disproportionately impacted by other safety issues in the workplace.

The number of women who suffered assault-related injuries in 2017 totaled 12,820 which is a 60 percent increase since 2011. There were 5,530 men who suffered assault-related injuries at work in 2017.

Other work-related injuries and illnesses that disproportionately impact women are accidental injury by another person (59%), falls on the same level (57%) and ergonomic issues like complications from repetitive motion (61%).

Women working in certain industries suffer a disproportionate number of nonfatal injuries and illnesses too. Female healthcare workers suffer 80 percent of nonfatal injuries and illnesses, and 61 percent of women in education suffer those injuries.

Assaults are the fourth leading cause of work-related deaths and in 2017, for the first time in four years, the number of workplace homicide deaths did not increase.

Check out more data on workplace assault from NSC here and read the press release on injury rates among women in the workplace from NSC here.