Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-90-385-2173: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, North Central Division; Chicago, Illinois

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• Personal Author:
  Fairfield, Cheryl L. ; McGlothlin, James D.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (SIC-4441), North Central Division, a study was made of possible hazards to maintenance and construction workers. The work force in question was involved in maintaining 18 dams and 22 lock chambers on the Mississippi River from Saverton, Missouri, to Guttenberg, Iowa and also on the Illinois Waterway from La Grange Lock and Dam to Chicago, Illinois. Data gathered through on-site studies indicated that potential musculoskeletal disorders could result at the elbow, shoulder, back and hip during the manual material handling in the maintenance shop in Peoria, Illinois, at the Lock and Dam Facility among the lock persons and during lock maintenance and repair. Job tasks that involved ergonomic risk factors included manual handling and transport during a roller repair operation, tying off of barge ropes while barge is locking through, and grinding during repair of lock gates. Hand and wrist disorders may also result from exposure to vibration from a handheld power sander. The author concludes that musculoskeletal hazards existed for the upper limbs and back. The author recommends measures to lower the ergonomic risks to the workers.
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Ergonomics Maintenance Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Construction-workers Cumulative Trauma Disorders Engineering Controls Hazard-Confirmed HETA-90-385-2173 Human-factors-engineering Locks And Dams Maintenance-workers Manual-materials-handling Manual Materials Handling Musculoskeletal Disorders NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report OSHA Region 5 Regulation And Administration Of Transportation Programs Transportation On Rivers And Canals Workstation Design

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA903852173
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Iowa ; Mississippi ; Missouri ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  29 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Smith, Stephen S.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00205499
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB92-176809
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, Ohio: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 90-385-2173, 1992 Jan ; :1-34
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  4441 - Transportation on Rivers and Canals - (SIC) ; 9621 - Regulation and administration of transportation - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5f99e519e85259b58d6c27f4c65ef365153fe8a275611e238e2aa1663b9fa18c94e7fff28506c6f4500d333e8aef68aada918a9a10ec675eb133410bdf5230e6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171609/cdc_171609_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 497.15 KB ]