Young workers

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• Corporate Authors:
  Oregon Worker Illness and Injury Prevention Program
• Description:
  Young workers die or are hospitalized from injuries at work every year, and they have higher rates of work-related injuries and illnesses than adult workers. There is evidence that workers aged 15-24 years are much more likely than older workers to be treated in hospital emergency departments for nonfatal occupational illnesses or injuries -- twice as likely as workers aged 25-54 years and three times as likely as workers 55 years of age and older. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health estimated that 52,600 work-related injuries and illnesses among 15- to 17-year-olds were treated in hospital emergency departments in 2006. Since only onethird of work-related injuries are seen in emergency departments, it is likely that 157,000 youths sustain work-related injuries and illnesses each year. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Burns Construction Industry Food-Processing Industry Food Handling Food Industry Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Sex Characteristics

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Children Construction-equipment Construction-workers Equipment-operators Food-processing-workers Food-services Injury-prevention Retail-workers Risk-analysis Safety-education Sex-factors Traumatic-injuries Work-operations

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• Publisher:
  Oregon Department of Human Services
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039573
• Citation:
  Putting Data to Work. Portland, OR: Oregon Department of Human Services, 2008 Dec; :1-8
• Contact Point Address:
  Oregon Department of Human Services, Public Health Division, Office of Environmental Public Health Toxicology, Assessment & Tracking Services Section (TATS), 800 NE Oregon Street #640 Portland, OR 97232
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services ; Wholesale and Retail Trade
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Services, Portland, Oregon
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Putting Data to Work
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:62639850aacb668118dd684342d28eb9288a0f43adae17fb30cbbcdd78f21c5d9c031880055578a0b45f3ba1fd3445b3537c1cc1c281428b9836de06e1eef5da
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192764/cdc_192764_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.24 MB ]