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  • Injuries from library work boosting Santa Cruz bills

    12/16/2003 8:08:40 PM PST · by hedgetrimmer · 14 replies · 285+ views
    The San Jose Mercury News ^ | Tue, Dec. 16, 2003 | David L. Beck
    Are you tough enough to be a Santa Cruz librarian? Think twice before you answer. For the past six years, 76 workers' compensation claims in the city-county library system amount to about $460,000 in medical bills, lost work time and other costs. There were 17 claims last year alone. That's a far higher injury rate than other systems report. • With four times the workforce at about 400 employees, Santa Clara County's library system reported 18 worker claims in 2003. Los Gatos' public library, with a staff of 32, had one injury claim in 2003. • A San Jose Public...