Occupational Injury Surveillance – United States

Details

• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in conjunction with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), recently developed a new surveillance system to monitor all occupational injuries treated at a sample of 66 hospital emergency rooms, statistically selected to be representative of all U.S. hospital emergency rooms and placed in 5 categories according to hospital size and type. The number of sample hospitals selected from each category is proportional to the emergency-room usage for hospitals in that category. Data in Table 1 show the types and estimated numbers of occupational injuries treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms in the period September 24-30, 1981. In addition to these variables, detailed occupational injury information provided through this surveillance system includes treatment date, age, sex, type of accident, cause of accident, and disposition of case. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Demography
  • Emergency Responders
  • Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services
  • Occupational Health
  • Occupational Injuries
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • Surveillance; Surveillance programs; Injuries; Statistical analysis; Occupations; Occupational accidents; Accident statistics; Demographic characteristics; Health care; Health care facilities; Emergency treatment; Medical treatment; Information retrieval systems
• Source:
  MMWR 1981 Nov; 30(46):578-579
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• 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:
  3 pdf pages
• Volume:
  30
• Issue:
  46
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20055758
• Citation:
  MMWR 1981 Nov; 30(46):578-579
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1982
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/183233/cdc_183233_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 397.65 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:96734765e667472ebd3a1d54227c5902d3f43d508ff3715bcfd4b26249c5da8dc92a6d4feca920fe26a666c4652e67e9e2b7897070236541a9694c5503a255b1