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How hotel employment can be dangerous to NY workers

A study that will be released early next year in The American Journal of Industrial Medicine has found some alarming information: certain hotel workers are far more likely than others to suffer from on-the-job injuries.

The study, “Occupational Injury Disparities in the U.S. Hotel Industry,” followed 2,865 injured workers at 50 unionized hotel properties over three years.  The findings ask some important questions about the role that gender and ethnicity play in workplace injury rates.

Researchers found that the demographic most at risk for workplace hotel injuries was Hispanic housekeepers, who had an injury rate of 10.6 percent per year, nearly three times the injury rate of the average American worker.  Women of any ethnicity also had higher than average injury rates, and were fifty percent more likely to be injured on-the-job than men.

What is the explanation for these statistics?  One reason is that women disproportionately make up the ranks of hotel housekeepers.  Housekeeping is a demanding job, and in some hotels can mean having to quickly clean 12 more rooms, performing highly repetitive tasks and having to do heavy lifting.

Lower wage hotel workers like busboys, banquet waiters, cooks and dishwashers were also more likely to be injured than the average worker.  Again, ethnicity plays a role because many of these types of hotel workers are Hispanic and Asians.  The study found that Hispanic and Asian men were 1.5 times as likely to suffer a workplace injury as white men.

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