Trends in incidence and correlation between medical costs and lost workdays for work-related amputations in the State of California from 2007 to 2018.

Amputations represent high medical costs and number of lost workdays. Considering the type of amputation and the industry the injury occurred in is important in order to work toward returning this population to work. Our results present the status of amputations in the California workplace and establish a basis for using medical costs to infer lost work productivity for this population.