They are Teachers and Firefighters, Nurses and Sanitation Workers—and among them, they had 14,780 injuries on the job last year.
Injuries to its employees in 2013 cost the city nearly $17.4 million in Workers’ Compensation costs and penalties, up 71 percent since 2005, according to a Law Department report presented to the City Council last month.
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