Metro’s workers are getting hurt on the job more often than their counterparts at other transit agencies, and it’s costing the agency millions. Metro paid out $22.4 million in worker’s compensation claims in fiscal 2010, according to the agency’s records.

It is now on target to pay out the same amount this year, having spent $11.2 million in the first six months of the budget year.

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