You are the Director of Safety, Health, and Environment for the chemical manufac

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You are the Director of Safety, Health, and Environment for the chemical manufacturing arm of a large agriculture company. As part of your annual review of the company's integrated management system, you are tasked with analyzing injury and illness data for your company to determine if the year's objectives have been me and to create new performance goals for the future. You were responsible for 20,000 full-time workers employed at 30 different facilities across the U.S. The largen facilities produce pesticides, fertilizer, feed additives and other agriculture products. Several smaller facilities are focused on research and development. One of your obiect es for last year was to reduce the number of total recordable injuries and illnesses per facility by 10% or more from the pre ous year. The data in the Table 1 below represent the true recordable injury and illness data for your chemical manufacturing division. Table 1: Injury and illness experiences of 30 chemical manufacturing facilities in last two years Total Recordable Case Rate (# of injuries or illnesses per 10,000 workers) ear otal number of Average number of le injuries and injuries/illnesses per nesses facility prior year 2,400 ast year 2,150 an (SD) 80 (12) 71.7 (11) 12.0 10.8

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There is no sufficient evidence to conclude that there is difference between years data at the given significance level.

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