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The objective of this study is to develop an approach to more accurately enumerate these workers.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Lost\u2010time claims to the Ontario Workplace Safety &amp; Insurance Board (WSIB) were reviewed. Using neck pain as an example, nature of injury and part of body codes were identified to classify cases. Claims of a random sample of 434 claimants were reviewed. The proportion of claimants classified as having neck pain was computed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The proportion of claimants classified with soft\u2010tissue injuries to the neck varied from 0.88 for codes including \u201cneck\/cervical region,\u201d 0.69 for \u201cback region\u201d to 0.05 for those coded as \u201cshoulder\/upper arm.\u201d<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Restricting the enumeration of injuries to specific part of body codes can lead to a gross underestimation of the magnitude of soft\u2010tissue disorders in epidemiological studies using workers' compensation data. The proposed approach leads to more accurate enumeration. Am. J. Ind. 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