Establishment of a construction safety research plan for NIOSH/DSR.

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• Personal Author:
  Parsons TJ
• Description:
  In an effort to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities in the construction industry, the Division of Safety Research (DSR) within NIOSH has supported this proposal of a strategy for future safety research efforts. This report identified specific construction occupation categories exposed to a risk of incurring fatalities or compensable injuries which are higher than the average construction occupation. These high risk occupations were divided by accident type, injury cost factors and frequency of injuries. Those occupations in the construction industry identified as high risk, in decreasing risk order, included laborers, carpenters, heavy equipment operators, roofer/slater, structural metal craftsmen, truck drivers, painters, plumbers, asbestos workers, sheet metal workers, mechanics, drywall installers, welders, cranemen, millwright, boilermakers, linemen, carpet installers, warehousemen, glaziers, and engineering science technicians. Specific types of accidents involved included those in which a worker was struck by another object, overexertion through lifting, those in which a worker strikes a stationary object, hit by a falling object, foreign matter in the eye, falling from an elevation, falling from a ladder, falling from scaffolds, contact with hot objects, and falls from vehicles. Proposed areas of research for each of these types of accidents and high risk occupations were listed.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Acetamides Ethanol Metals Metal Workers Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety Solvents Urine Urogenital Diseases Urogenital System

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-statistics Asbestos-workers Construction-equipment Construction-industry Metal-workers Mortality-rates NIOSH-Author Physical-exercise Plumbing Safety-research Woodworkers

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Other
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-156
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00185295
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1984 Jan; :1-156
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1984
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:02f6b1a70f08aa18bf8e907766f328478e6d685cc00c9e32cfd786a2ea6c21cb4d1651cdbb634df679e59bbe52f263da2b8f02324d1ea7beec88e15d0e76bdbc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180207/cdc_180207_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.08 MB ]