Safety hazards to workers in modular home construction

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• Personal Author:
  Becker PE ; Fullen MD ; Takacs B
• Description:
  While conducting fall protection training, staff of the Safety and Health Extension, West Virginia University, learned of hazards that are unique to modular home construction and investigated them as part of a pilot study. The literature shows that not much research has been done on the modular home industry and that what has been done focuses on manufacturing, rather than installation. This report, based on observation, interviews, and a questionnaire, lists the hazards faced by workers that appear to be specific to modular home installation, recommends ways to improve worker safety, and suggests areas for future research. In 2000, modular and mobile home manufacturing industries experienced 13 deaths from injuries, and residential building contractors, which include modular home installation companies, experienced 97 such deaths, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (In 2000, there were just under 1,200 deaths from injuries in construction.) In the most recent published report covering modular and mobile homes - manufacturing and installation, combined - the two were among the top 10 high-risk industries, as measured by BLS annual surveys of occupational injuries and illnesses. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Construction Materials Hazardous Substances Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-materials Construction-workers Health-hazards Health-surveys Injuries Injury-prevention Job-analysis Mortality-data Mortality-rates Occupational-hazards Prefabricated-metal-buildings Questionnaires Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Task-performance Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health Workplace-monitoring Workplace-studies

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• Publisher:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039989
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2003 Jul; :1-12
• Contact Point Address:
  Building and Construction Trades Dept., AFL-CIO: CPWR, Suite 1000, 8484 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19990930
• Source Full Name:
  Safety Hazards to Workers in Modular Home Construction
• End Date:
  20050630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:efa1ee56c3337dfbd73a7522236562a4d5a033da116a47d29b4e6d4e01d1f7f9ae2fced7e67218b310160042bd78dc2b9a359e5a9ef414fc93e47a209bb4629b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193011/cdc_193011_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 134.35 KB ]