Workers' Compensation Expense (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

Workers' Compensation Expense

Workers' compensation expense

Workers’ compensation expense consists of the following components:

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2022		2021
	(In thousands)
Self-insured occupational disease benefits:
Service cost	$	1,498	$	1,949
Interest cost(1)		1,152		1,110
Net amortization(1)		157		591
Total occupational disease	$	2,807	$	3,650
Traumatic injury claims and assessments		2,056		1,805
Total workers’ compensation expense	$	4,863	$	5,455

(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 Statements of Operations on the line item “Non-service related pension and postretirement benefit costs.”