Deaths and Injuries Involving Elevators or Escalators in Construction and the General Population

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• Personal Author:
  Dong, Xiuwen S. ; Katz, Rebecca ; Wang, Xuanwen
• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Elevators and escalators are potential sources of serious injuries and deaths to the general public and workers installing, repairing, and maintaining them. Workers are also at risk when cleaning elevator shafts, conducting
  
  emergency evacuations of stalled elevators, or performing construction work near open shafts. This Quarterly Data Report provides updated statistics on elevator- and escalator-related fatal and nonfatal injuries using the most recent data and information on injury prevention from multiple sources. Fatality data are from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), and nonfatal injury data are from the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII). Both datasets were collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). To calculate injury rates, denominators were obtained from the Current Population Survey. The number of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspections and corresponding penalties were also estimated. Additionally, the number of elevator- (product code 1889) or escalator- (product code 1890) related injuries (including non-work-related) treated at hospitals in the general population from 2007 to 2017 was calculated using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) maintained by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Selected OSHA safety and health regulations and NIOSH Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program recommendations regarding how to prevent elevatorrelated injuries and fatalities are summarized in Table 1.
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 20055369
  
  Quarter4-QDR-2018.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement U60-OH009762 from The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  26 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20055369
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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