Deindustrialisation and the Long Term Decline in Fatal Occupational Injuries

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• Personal Author:
  Bailer AJ ; Bena JF ; Loomis D ; Richardson DB
• Description:
  To examine the extent to which deindustrialisation accounts for long term trends in occupational injury risk in the United States. Rates of fatal unintentional occupational injury were computed using data from death certificates and the population census. Trends were estimated using Poisson regression. Standardisation and regression methods were used to adjust for the potential effect of structural change in the labour market. The fatal occupational injury rate for all industries declined 45% from 1980 to 1996 (RR (rate ratio) 0.55, 95% CI 0.52 to 0.57). Adjustment for structural changes in the workforce shifted the RR to 0.62 (95% CI 0.60 to 0.65). Expanding industries enjoyed more rapid reduction in risk (-3.43% per year, 95% CI -3.62 to -3.24) than those that contracted (-2.65% per year, 95% CI -2.88 to -2.42). Deindustrialisation contributed to the decline of fatal occupational injury rates in the United States, but explained only 10-15% of the total change. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Industrial-hazards Injuries Mortality-data Mortality-rates Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Risk-analysis Risk-factors Traumatic-injuries
• ISSN:
  1351-0711
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  61
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025631
• Citation:
  Occup Environ Med 2004 Jul; 61(7):616-621
• Contact Point Address:
  Prof. D Loomis, Department of Epidemiology, CB-7435 UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA
• Email:
  Dana.Loomis@unc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Risk Assessment Methods
• Performing Organization:
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20000930
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20040929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196912/cdc_196912_DS1.pdf
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