Fatal and Non-Fatal Injuries from Vessels Under Air Pressure in Construction

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• Personal Author:
  Hunting KL ; Weeks J ; Welch LS
• Description:
  Using a surveillance system that captures data on construction workers treated in an urban emergency department, we identified a series of injuries caused by vessels and tools under air pressure. We describe those six cases, as well as similar cases found in the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries; we also review data from the National Surveillance for Traumatic Occupational Fatalities database and data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among the injuries and deaths for which we had good case descriptions, the majority would have been prevented by adherence to existing Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards in the construction industry. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Accident-rates Accident-statistics Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Surveillance-programs Traumatic-injuries
• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  100-103
• Volume:
  41
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025821
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 1999 Feb; 41(2):100-103
• Contact Point Address:
  Laura S. Welch, MD, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Washington Hospital Center, 110 Irving Street, NW, Washington, DC 20010
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights, Washington, DC
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19900928
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  19961231
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9089b47e1c12e19fdda24ec3dd7be9eb3b17b923e126fb3e929af5f914526db24ebbd982dd6e02bc8ae284e94c6538fdbb63b5165732d2f2b9399ddf0ad38077
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/197037/cdc_197037_DS1.pdf
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