--- title: Monday Most Common Day for Workplace Injuries: Study description: Ban Mondays. canonical: https://time.com/3637532/monday-common-workplace-injuries/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-17T15:45:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:24.753Z og:title: Monday Is the Day You're Most Likely to Hurt Yourself at Work og:description: Just more proof that Mondays are terrible og:url: https://time.com/3637532/monday-common-workplace-injuries/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96abd17eb6be4772/69876f5435ba6f5490c06074/157611188-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5616 og:image:height: 3159 og:image:alt: Monday og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Monday Is the Day You're Most Likely to Hurt Yourself at Work twitter:description: Just more proof that Mondays are terrible twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96abd17eb6be4772/69876f5435ba6f5490c06074/157611188-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # More Proof That Mondays Are Terrible: It's the Most Common Day for Workplace Injuries > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 17, 2014 3:45 PM UTC  Monday pinned on bulletin cork board Monday pinned on bulletin cork board Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 17, 2014 3:45 PM UTC The one thing all of humankind has in common — [besides the sandwich](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7eq7O4SbJk) — is a shared hatred for Mondays, because obviously, they’re just the worst in general. But it also turns out Monday is the day when the most workplace injuries occur. According to the [annual report](http://www.bls.gov/news.release/osh2.nr0.htm) on “nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses” by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 167,000 workplace injuries took place on Mondays in 2013 — more than any other day of the week. And this is not a new trend, as FiveThiryEight [points out](http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/another-reason-mondays-are-the-worst/). Monday has consistently been the most injury-prone day for the past several years. And while there’s no explicit correlation between the day and the numbers, we still have one main takeaway: Ban Mondays. 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