Workers Compensation Expense (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2024

Workers Compensation Expense

Workers' compensation (Credit) expense

Workers’ compensation (credit) expense consists of the following components:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2024		2023		2024		2023
	(In thousands)
Self-insured occupational disease benefits:
Service cost	$	1,278	$	993	$	3,833	$	2,980
Interest cost(1)		1,565		1,511		4,696		4,531
Net amortization(1)		(3)		(241)		(8)		(723)
Total occupational disease	$	2,840	$	2,263	$	8,521	$	6,788
Traumatic injury claims and assessments		2,940		(6,834)		8,016		(2,403)
Total workers’ compensation (credit) expense	$	5,780	$	(4,571)	$	16,537	$	4,385

(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 credits.”