Workers Compensation Expense (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2022

Workers Compensation Expense

Workers' compensation expense

Workers’ compensation expense consists of the following components:

	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
	2022		2021		2022		2021
	(In thousands)
Self-insured occupational disease benefits:
Service cost	$	1,497	$	1,949	$	2,995	$	3,898
Interest cost(1)		1,152		1,111		2,304		2,220
Net amortization(1)		157		590		314		1,181
Total occupational disease	$	2,806	$	3,650	$	5,613	$	7,299
Traumatic injury claims and assessments		2,150		1,865		4,206		3,670
Total workers’ compensation expense	$	4,956	$	5,515	$	9,819	$	10,969

(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.”