Workers Compensation Expense (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2024

Workers Compensation Expense

Workers' compensation expense

Workers’ compensation expense consists of the following components:

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2024		2023
	(In thousands)
Self-insured occupational disease benefits:
Service cost	$	1,278	$	993
Interest cost(1)		1,565		1,511
Net amortization(1)		(3)		(241)
Total occupational disease	$	2,840	$	2,263
Traumatic injury claims and assessments		2,484		1,690
Total workers’ compensation expense	$	5,324	$	3,953

(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 Income Statements on the line item “Non-service related pension and postretirement benefit (credits) costs.”