Solid waste industry reduces fatalities and injuries

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• Personal Author:
  Utterback D
• Description:
  The most recent data from 2009 for the solid waste industry indicate that occupational fatalities have decreased substantially and the downward trend in days-away-from-work injuries and illnesses continues. These data, which are recorded by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), are encouraging. Yet the industry remains one of the top 10 most hazardous in the U.S. The total number of fatalities in 2009 was 43 after averaging 67 fatalities per year of the previous six years. Still, 83 percent of the 571 occupational fatalities between 2003 and 2009 occurred in the private sector. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Waste Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Accident-rates Accident-statistics Injuries Injury-prevention Safety-education Safety-practices Safety-programs Surveillance-programs Waste-disposal
• ISSN:
  2150-8429
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040253
• Citation:
  Waste Advant Mag 2011 Sep; 2(9):26, 28
• Email:
  dutterback@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Waste Advantage Magazine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7da9493c9760894a4f72e681419702098e6e603c99950a2b4d48978c6aec6bc0e7ae8877a398d946dfa9a2bcdbd31e5d6f2ab40749d5c4b8d5b17aa1530edcf8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193194/cdc_193194_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.59 MB ]