Enhancing severe injury surveillance: the association between severe injury events and fatalities in US coal mines

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• Personal Author:
  Burgess JL ; Hill JRM ; Hu C ; Miller H ; Poplin GS ; Sottile, Joseph
• Description:
  This report evaluates the potential of using high degree (or severe) injuries as a proxy for fatal events. Injuries occurring at bituminous coal mines within the United States during the years 1996-2006 were classified by the degree of severity according to the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS). Using multivariate discrete and logistic models (via generalized estimating equations) and adjusting for number of employees and underground v. surface status, high degree (AIS.3) injuries in the prior year were associated with an increased risk (OR 2.02, 95% CI 1.17 to 3.46) of fatalities within the same mine.While there is a need for improvements and standardization of injury surveillance and reporting, the findings support the study hypothesis that mining conditions resulting in high degree injuries can also result in fatalities, thus expanding the use and versatility of high degree injury surveillance data. With an improved understanding of the conditions and activities behind these two injury event types, these results enhance the ability for industry to more readily identify and develop technological advancements for safety and mitigating disasters. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Mining Mortality Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Injury Coal-miners Coal-mining Data-processing Environmental-technology Information-retrieval-systems Information-systems Injuries Mathematical-models Miners Mining Mining-industry Mortality-data Mortality-rates Statistical-analysis Surface-mining Surveillance Surveillance-programs Traumatic-injuries Underground-miners Underground-mining

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• ISSN:
  0022-4375
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; Colorado ; Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 8 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  31-35
• Volume:
  44
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042713
• Citation:
  J Safety Res 2013 Feb; 44(Special Issue):31-35
• Email:
  poplin@email.arizona.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Performing Organization:
  University of Arizona, Tucson
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20100901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Safety Research
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cf4c77408cebfb2a5ca9a5a8067b4e9fcb84b4ca8154f0bd6e92eb76480fd2f22669843dc13ffa3ad7ca9bdcb50d7a8f10b60c50cb4c499c4c830184545b302d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194850/cdc_194850_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 252.28 KB ]