Workers Compensation Expense (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

Workers Compensation Expense

Workers' compensation expense

Workers’ compensation expense consists of the following components:

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020
	(In thousands)
Self-insured occupational disease benefits:
Service cost	$	1,949	$	1,891
Interest cost(1)		1,110		1,399
Net amortization(1)		591		297
Total occupational disease	$	3,650	$	3,587
Traumatic injury claims and assessments		1,805		2,182
Total workers’ compensation expense	$	5,455	$	5,769

(1) In accordance with the adoption of ASU 2017-07, “Compensation-Retirement Benefits (Topic 715): Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost,” these costs are recorded within Nonoperating expenses in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations on the line item “Non-service related pension and postretirement benefit costs.”