Direct Measurement of Exposures to the Upper Extremity During Automobile Manufacturing

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• Personal Author:
  Buchholz B ; Park J-S ; Punnett, Laura
• Description:
  This paper explores the measurement of wrist posture and motion on workers in two jobs at a plant that stamps sheet metal parts to be used in automobile assembly. It was hypothesized that the welding assemblers would have more wrist motion than the large press operators, who performed primarily manual material handling activities. Wrist posture was ascertained using a biaxial flexible wire electrogoniometer. Numerical differentiation was performed to calculate angular velocity and acceleration from the posture data. No significant differences were found for the wrist posture or motion data between the jobs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Cumulative Trauma Disorders Ergonomics Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Metals Metal Workers Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Safety Welding
• Keywords:
  Cumulative-trauma Cumulative-trauma-disorders Machine-operators Machine-shop-workers Manual-materials-handling Materials-handling Metal-industry Metal-industry-workers Metalworking Musculoskeletal-system Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Welders

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• ISBN:
  0945289138
• Publisher:
  Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  166-168
• Volume:
  44
• Issue:
  29
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026165
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. Proceedings of the IEA 2000/HFES 2000 Congress, July 30-August 4, 2000, San Diego, California. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2000 Jul; 44(29):166-168
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. Proceedings of the IEA 2000/HFES 2000 Congress, July 30-August 4, 2000, San Diego, California
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:55ebbdb4537d9bdec57c6938c210b2d0ebc86962ab25fa318374bbd50ee6cd69c9ba655871687ace3c1d23b0fae76c3386e2f99a15ca679668d7d05ff2880b4e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/197221/cdc_197221_DS1.pdf
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