Workers Compensation Expense (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

Workers Compensation Expense

Workers' compensation expense

Workers’ compensation expense consists of the following components:

	Year Ended		Year Ended		Year Ended
	December 31,		December 31,		December 31,
	2022		2021		2020
Self-insured occupational disease benefits:
Service cost	$	5,991	$	7,796	$	7,564
Interest cost(1)		4,610		4,439		5,115
Net amortization(1)		628		2,363		1,189
Total occupational disease	$	11,229	$	14,598	$	13,868
Traumatic injury claims and assessments		(3,783)		3,925		12,922
Total workers’ compensation expense	$	7,446	$	18,523	$	26,790

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

Schedule of Changes in Occupational Disease Obligations

	Year Ended		Year Ended
	December 31,		December 31,
(In thousands)	2022		2021
Beginning of period	$	167,585	$	183,001
Service cost		5,991		7,796
Interest cost		4,610		4,439
Actuarial gain		(48,859)		(21,245)
Benefit and administrative payments		(9,319)		(6,406)
	$	120,008	$	167,585

Schedule of Occupational Disease Obligation Assumptions Used

	Year Ended December 31, 2022	Year Ended December 31, 2021
(Percentages)
Discount rate	5.21	2.82

Workers' compensation liabilities

	Year Ended		Year Ended
	December 31,		December 31,
	2022		2021
(In thousands)
Occupational disease costs	$	120,008	$	167,585
Traumatic and other workers’ compensation claims		53,332		70,722
Total obligations		173,340		238,307
Less amount included in accrued expenses		17,584		14,202
Noncurrent obligations	$	155,756	$	224,105

Schedule of expected future payments

Year	(In thousands)
2023	$	13,344
2024		14,032
2025		14,154
2026		14,472
2027		14,837
Next 5 years		34,929
	$	105,768