Workers Compensation Expense (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Workers’ compensation expense consists of the following components:



	Three Months Ended September 30,					Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2019		2018			2019		2018
	(In thousands)
Self-insured occupational disease benefits:
Service cost	$	1,670	$	1,860		$	5,008	$	5,580
Interest cost⁽¹⁾	1,354		1,196			4,062		3,585
Total occupational disease	$	3,024	$	3,056		$	9,070	$	9,165
Traumatic injury claims and assessments	2,088		(2,069		)	6,642		3,130
Total workers’ compensation expense	$	5,112	$	987		$	15,712	$	12,295

(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 costs.”