Costs of Occupational Injuries to Teenagers, United States

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• Personal Author:
  Miller TR ; Waehrer GM
• Description:
  This paper estimates the incidence and costs of teenage occupational injuries by severity in the United States. Existing estimates of occupational injury costs are adapted for the teenage population. Incidence estimates are constructed using data from the US 1993 Annual Survey of Occupational Injury and Illness and the 1993 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries combined with incidence data from the National Health Interview Survey. In 1993, an estimated 371,000 teenagers were injured in the workplace, accounting for 4.2% of all occupational injuries. These injuries cost $5 billion, approximately 3% of the total of injury costs involving teenagers. Teenagers appear to account for a larger share of the total number of occupational injuries relative to their presence in the employed workforce, but a lower share of the costs of such injuries. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Aging Demography Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety
• Keywords:
  Accidents Age-factors Age-groups Author Keywords: Teenagers Costs Demographic-characteristics Incidence Injuries Occupational-accidents Occupational-diseases Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Occupational Injuries

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• ISSN:
  1353-8047
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  211-217
• Volume:
  4
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030574
• Citation:
  Inj Prev 1998 Sep; 4(3):211-217
• Contact Point Address:
  Ted R Miller, National Public Services Research Institute, 8201 Corporate Drive, Suite 220 Landover, MD 20785, USA
• Email:
  miller@pire.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Injury Prevention
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:55545473cc5ee342b9fb3a14a18884efab455e1a2fcc4bbefcb132a0bcd8eb77c4e9d871f7387928bdda02af92c04b4007e2ab8537a9993812e618b2629acc30
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191132/cdc_191132_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 160.55 KB ]