Injury surveillance. A review of data sources used by the Division of Safety Research.

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• Personal Author:
  Coleman, Patrick J.
• Description:
  Occupational injury data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System is reviewed. Reports from hospital records reveal that a large proportion of injuries are relatively minor. In 97 percent of cases, patients are treated and released; 24.4 percent involve only the fingers; and 47.8 percent are diagnosed as laceration, contusion, or abrasion. Estimates are misleading because emergency room cases constitute 36 percent of all injuries on the job or at place of business. Many minor injuries are treated at workplace medical facilities. The national system reports those that are serious enough to merit a trip to the hospital. Age, sex, and month specific incidence rates are available for the United States. In the summer, young male workers present more than 5 times the risk of other workers who are 55 years of age and older. Risks for female workers are an average of 25 percent that of males and do not display the pronounced seasonal trend of males. In 1977, NIOSH developed a program designed to provide previously unavailable details on job accidents. The Work Injury Report Survey consists of questionnaires that are mailed to injured workers who have filed worker's compensation claims. Questionnaires provide details on the characteristics of injured workers, exposure to various conditions, experience, training, personal protective equipment, and actions taken by employer after the accident. Occupational injury surveillance often proceeds from case series data that usually represents only frequency, and occasionally severity, of injury. The objectives of safety are to define problems, causal factors, and hypotheses clearly. Extensive use of surveillance data to identify and characterize risk factors will promote more effective research on workplace injury reduction. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Hazardous Substances Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Risk Assessment Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Accident-statistics Author Keywords: Accidents Epidemiology Health-hazards Health-protection Hospital Emergency Rooms Industrial-safety NIOSH-Author Occupational-accidents Priorities Risk Risk-analysis Safety-research Worker's Compensation Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  0355-3140
• 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:
  128-135
• Volume:
  9
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00135277
• Citation:
  Scand J Work Environ Health 1983 Apr; 9(2):128-135
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr PJ Coleman, Division of Safety Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 944 Chestnut Ridge Road, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:dae99d7f8e5b6113c5cb1e5d0fab6b9871be4edb7de56b9c63d24907e140fe9b6ddb700624f947fa46bac6e30133d7d856aa5c2e7a36074f88e5c13ee85ee1bb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/184677/cdc_184677_DS1.pdf
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