Quarterly Data Report: Struck-by Injuries and Prevention in the Construction Industry

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• Journal Article:
  Struck-by injuries and prevention in the construction industry
• Personal Author:
  Wang, Xuanwen ; Katz, Rebecca ; Schneider, Scott P. ; Memarian, Babak ; Dong, Xiuwen S.
• Description:
  Struck-by hazards are a leading cause of fatal and nonfatal injuries in construction, and have been defined as one of the Focus Four hazards identified by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) (the other hazards are falls, caught-in-between, and electrocution; OSHA 2011). Struckby injuries can occur in many different ways. To prevent construction workers from struck-by injuries, specific hazards and working environments should be taken into account for safety and health intervention programs. This Quarterly Data Report includes data on deaths and injuries from being struck by vehicles, objects, and equipment. Primary sources of struck-by injuries and vulnerable worker groups for such injuries were also analyzed and are presented in the report. Numbers of fatal and nonfatal injuries were obtained from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) and the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), respectively. Both the CFOI and SOII are data collections of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In addition to the BLS data, this report introduces solutions to prevent struck-by injuries selected from a variety of sources, including OSHA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and CPWR. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Employment Mining Occupational Health Safety Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Motor vehicles; Falling objects; Fatalities; Construction; Construction-industry; Construction-workers; Construction-equipment; Safety-research; Accident-potential; Accident-prevention; Mortality data; Mortality rates; Injuries; Injury prevention; Surveillance; Occupational hazards; Work environment; Bureau of Labor Statistics; BLS; Information systems; Occupational Safety and Health Administration; OSHA; Vehicle safety; Work zone; Highway work zones; Accident analysis; Accident rates; Accident statistics; Risk factors; Statistical analysis; Road construction; Road surfacing
• Source:
  CPWR Quarterly Data Report. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2017 Jun; :1-25
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement U60-OH009762 from The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  25 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050513
• Contact Point Address:
  Xiuwen Sue Dong, CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Email:
  SDong@cpwr.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fe8247da3480a9801264e8b925d03e0214e3eeb179c1054b0362f9978f025057c0006ea7b87e235a1b214029268807154dde238d0c6b3fbbc06e16a5522a1fc7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/158074/cdc_158074_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.18 MB ]