Results In states that adopted ESL prior to 2019, two-way fixed effect analyses suggest a marginally significant increase in rates of nonfatal illness/injury reports across industries (+0.064 cases per 100 full-time workers, p = 0.10) following the implementation of ESL policies.
The estimator maintained marginal significance and increased in magnitude (+0.072 cases per 100 FTs, p value = 0.10) within analyses including only industries with high proportions of insured workers (>75%) but disappeared in analyses including only industries with low proportions of insured employees (+0.024 cases per 100 FTs, p value = 0.38) ( Table 3 , Fig. 3 ).