Workers Compensation Expense (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Workers Compensation Expense

Workers' compensation expense

Workers’ compensation expense consists of the following components:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2022		2021		2022		2021
	(In thousands)
Self-insured occupational disease benefits:
Service cost	$	1,498	$	1,949	$	4,493	$	5,847
Interest cost(1)		1,153		1,110		3,458		3,330
Net amortization(1)		157		590		471		1,772
Total occupational disease	$	2,808	$	3,649	$	8,422	$	10,949
Traumatic injury claims and assessments		2,218		1,779		6,424		5,449
Total workers’ compensation expense	$	5,026	$	5,428	$	14,846	$	16,398

(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.”