Yes, and after the meaningful changes were implemented, the plant safety crews continued to grow, which required they start inventing problems to solve.
Not necessarily true, their jobs were to continue to monitor the work environment since many of the new "alleged" injuries were production related "repetitive movement" injuries.
And to further address your statement, what would be your solution to the yet increasing incidents of Workers Comp claims (mostly bogus) being filed against these companies? You now not only have a workers comp department that handles these claims but a cadre of attorneys whose sole job is to settle them.
To put this issue into perspective for you, back around 1979, my company laid off approx. 700 employees due to the sale of our wheel and brake division. Within a year, 200 of those laid off employees had filed workers comp claims against my company............