World Trade Center disaster: assessment of responder occupations, work locations, and job tasks

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• Personal Author:
  Baron, Sherry L. ; de la Hoz RE ; Freund A ; Herbert R ; Kim H ; Landrigan, Philip J. ; Park BY ; Siegel de Hernández M ; Stevenson L ; Teitelbaum S ; Wisnivesky JP ; Woskie SR
• Description:
  Background: To date there have been no comprehensive reports of the work performed by 9/11 World Trade Center responders. Methods: 18,969 responders enrolled in the WTC Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program were used to describe workers' pre-9/11 occupations, WTC work activities and locations from September 11, 2001 to June 2002. Results: The most common pre-9/11 occupation was protective services (47 percent); other common occupations included construction, telecommunications, transportation, and support services workers. 14 percent served as volunteers. Almost one-half began work on 9/11 and greater than 80 percent reported working on or adjacent to the ''pile'' at Ground Zero. Initially, the most common activity was search and rescue but subsequently, the activities of most responders related to their pre-9/11 occupations. Other major activities included security; personnel support; buildings and grounds cleaning; and telecommunications repair. Conclusions: The spatial, temporal, occupational, and task-related taxonomy reported here will aid the development of a job-exposure matrix, assist in assessment of disease risk, and improve planning and training for responders in future urban disasters. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communications Media Construction Industry Disaster Planning Emergency Responders Environmental Monitoring Firefighters Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Law Enforcement Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety September 11 Terrorist Attacks Transportation

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• Keywords:
  9/11 Author Keywords: World Trade Center Communication-workers Construction-workers Disaster Disaster-planning Emergency-responders Emergency Planning Emergency Responder Employee-health Exposure Exposure-assessment Exposure Assessment Fire-fighters Groundskeeping-workers Job-analysis Law-enforcement-workers Medical-monitoring Medical-screening Medical-services Medical-treatment Occupational Health Occupations Police-officers Rescue-workers Risk-analysis Risk-factors Service-industries Task Task-performance Transportation-workers Work-analysis WTC

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Contract
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; New York ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  54
• Issue:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039424
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2011 Sep; 54(9):681-695
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr. Susan Woskie, PhD, CIH, One University Ave., Lowell, MA 01854
• Email:
  susan_woskie@uml.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• Performing Organization:
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20040601
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20100531
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8c10eee9064cba67019ebc298eefe72f1159abcb2f8a404d0e8267a29953ce0c54a0a68c336ed120a9f2e842f6e2b339048b89af3ff686119c76ac7ffccb898e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192709/cdc_192709_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 2.41 MB ]