Ohsfeldt and Morrisey (1997) also examined the impact of alcohol price and availability on injuries, specifically nonfatal workplace injuries, using State-level data for the period from 1975 through 1985. These analyses found a strong inverse relationship between workplace injuries and beer taxes. For example, the investigators predicted that a 25-cent increase in the beer tax in 1992 would have reduced work-loss days from nonfatal workplace injuries by 4.6 million, reducing the costs of lost productivity by $491 million. In contrast, alcohol availability has little impact on nonfatal workplace injuries according to these analyses.
