Madison School District Worker’s Comp Investigation
Administrators from the Madison School District tell us before our story aired last year, the district was seeing a decrease in worker’s comp claims and days missed. But in the year that passed by since our story aired, the numbers shot way down — 41 percent.
According to records from the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) — in 2004, Madison School District employees reported 144 injuries, resulting in 1280 missed days of work. That cost tax payers roughly $1.25 million in worker’s comp claims.
A year ago, Roger Price, Madison School District Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, told us the district was in control of the situation. “We’ve been able to get our employees back to work, which reduces the days out,” Price said last year.
But we compared Madison’s numbers to other similar sized districts, and found a much different story in Green Gay. In the same time frame, OSHA records show that the Green Bay School District reported 219 injuries — about 60 more than Madison. But Green Bay employees missed only 92 days of work. That means Madison employees missed roughly 1,100 more days, due to on the job injuries, than similar sized Green Bay.
