Workers’ Memorial Day – April 28, 1998

Details

• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  April 28, 1998, has been designated Workers' Memorial Day to recognize persons who have died from occupational injuries or diseases and opportunities to prevent these deaths. During 1980-1994, a total of work-related injuries; in 1992, costs of such injuries were an estimated $145 billion. An estimated additional 60,000 workers died from occupational diseases. Additional information about causes and prevention of work-related injury and disease is available from CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), or on the World-Wide Web https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hazardous Substances Mining Occupational Health Safety Software
• Keywords:
  Mortality-data; Workers; Occupational-accidents; Occupational-diseases; Occupations; Injuries; Injury-prevention; Disease-prevention; Diseases; Occupational-health-programs; Occupational-safety-programs; Statistical-analysis; Lost-work-days; Disabled-workers
• Source:
  MMWR 1998 Apr; 47(15):297
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director ; DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  47
• Issue:
  15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025879
• Citation:
  MMWR 1998 Apr; 47(15):297
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:604546e9b658f66ad643d1a570865ef986c8032e01c848c6be403c1655abd3b1b28340e72af92aadfdaf0b44cf6c23f700b426312cf4941eb78704b8362d1225
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/183345/cdc_183345_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 147.68 KB ]