Direct Costs and Patterns of Injuries Among Residential Carpenters, 1995–2000

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• Personal Author:
  Behlman R ; Dement, John M. ; Lipscomb HJ
• Description:
  Workers' compensation records for residential contractors were combined with hours worked provided by the union to examine injury rates and costs among union carpenters between 1995 and 2000. Brief text descriptions were reviewed to describe more costly injuries. Costs per hour worked decreased over 6 years, largely because of declines in rates and mean costs for falls from elevations. Higher costs were associated with injuries from falls, raising framed walls, setting steel I-beams, and pneumatic nail guns. Prevention priorities should include fall protection; methods to safely set steel beams, raise and brace framed walls; and steps to prevent injuries from pneumatic tools. Cost data provide an important measure that is useful in focusing prevention; combined with even limited descriptions of injuries target areas for intervention can be identified based on frequency or severity. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Traumatic-injuries
• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  45
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029214
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2003 Aug; 45(8):875-880
• Email:
  hester.lipscomb@duke.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Traumatic Injuries
• Performing Organization:
  Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19990930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20020929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4e4a7f3d06a1b22a4b65ff095017f2f22d6d70f589ea90966c097f6511fa75ddcf857fdb37bf7fbe7c651cb7d73586168228662b77aac1ba2999a0f4af12b96b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/190248/cdc_190248_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 385.44 KB ]