Preventing youth worker fatalities.

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• Personal Author:
  Hanrahan LP ; Higgins DM ; Tierney JM ; Washburn MJ
• Description:
  This presentation describes the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program and summarizes in-depth data collected on 59 young worker fatalities in 26 states. These investigations were conducted between May 1986 and February 2002. Young workers ranged in age from 9 to 17 years, with a mean age of 15.28 years; 21 were working in the agriculture/forestry fishing industry, 12 in construction, 10 in manufacturing, 8 in services and 8 in the retail industry. The majority worked as laborers. Ninety-three percent were male: Each investigation resulted in the formulation and dissemination of preventive strategies to help prevent future similar occurrences. For an example of state FACE activities, the presentation describes the Wisconsin FACE program's efforts to foster collaboration between regulatory agencies, researchers, educators, occupational safety and health professionals, and to integrate efforts aimed at improving safety for working youth.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Coloring Agents Environmental Monitoring Nitrogen Compounds Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Age-factors Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Construction-industry Demographic-characteristics Fishing-industry Injuries Injury-prevention Models Mortality-data Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Occupational-safety-programs Traumatic-injuries Workers

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• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Construction
• Genre:
  Abstract ; Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania ; 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:
  44-45
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024234
• Citation:
  NOIRS 2003: Abstracts of the National Occupational Injury Research Symposium, October 28-30, 2003, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, PA: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2003 Oct; :44-45
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  1141 - Fishing - (NAICS)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:11a9753d0eb1e84da8388b9910bd35462e5396b67a5542fa863ff557322b23d0735acff1f445f54d8f24140571e16b195fafe61dd6d9e7f309415cfbbfde0c56
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181199/cdc_181199_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 18.88 KB ]