Traumatic Occupational Fatalities in the Retail Industry, United States 1992–1996

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• Personal Author:
  Erickson R ; Kraus JF ; Peek-Asa, Corinne
• Description:
  Retail is a growing economic sector and employs an increasing number of the overall workforce, yet little is known about the incidence and characteristics of work-related deaths in the retail industry. Workplace deaths were examined using the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries from 1992 through 1996. Occupational fatality rates were calculated by age, gender, and type of establishment, and characteristics of occupational deaths in the retail industry were compared to other industries. Liquor stores had the highest work-related fatality rates in the retail industry. The two leading causes of death in the retail industry were violence (69.5%) and motor vehicle crashes (19.3%). Females, younger, minority, and foreign-born workers were more likely to be killed in retail than other industries. Deaths in the retail industry were more likely to be in small businesses, after normal business hours, and in urban settings. Workers in the retail industry were at lower risk of most types of workplace deaths but had a markedly increased risk of violent death than workers in other industries. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Automobiles Demography Epidemiology Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Race Factors Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Sex Characteristics Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Author Keywords: Occupational Demographic-characteristics Fatality Rates Injuries Mortality-data Mortality-rates Motor-vehicles Occupational-hazards Racial-factors Retail-workers Risk-factors Sex-factors Traumatic-injuries Violence Work-environment Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  186-191
• Volume:
  35
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024578
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 1999 Feb; 35(2):186-191
• Contact Point Address:
  Corinne Peek-Asa, UCLA SPH Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
• Email:
  cpeekasa@ucla.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Performing Organization:
  University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19960930
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20000929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7975b36e3609456184f316c488455d25527c769e1dc10f87bb52fff3df8cb1096d947b1ac2f98680f454ab721a079ecba579cefce3e9a72dacbc667d7493e741
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196323/cdc_196323_DS1.pdf
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