Hospitalized Nonfatal Injuries in the Alaskan Construction Industry

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• Personal Author:
  Conway, George A. ; Fosbroke DE ; Husberg BJ ; Mode, Nicolle A.
• Description:
  Construction industry workers are exposed to many hazards leading to fatal and nonfatal injuries. Information for nonfatal work-related injury surveillance may be vague and come from a variety of sources. The Alaska Trauma Registry (ATR) is used as an injury surveillance tool to focus on hospitalized nonfatal injuries in the Alaskan construction industry. During 1991-1999, 717 workers in the Alaskan construction industry were hospitalized due to occupational injuries, with an average annual injury rate of 0.39 injuries/100 workers. Leading causes of injury included falls (48%) and machinery (15%). Thirty-four percent of the falls were from a building or structure, followed by falls from a ladder (24%). A fractured bone was the most common type of injury (57%). Information on hospitalized patients from the ATR focuses on the more severe and debilitating injuries, and provides valuable information for prioritizing injury prevention efforts in Alaska. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Epidemiology Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Epidemiology Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Construction Safety Injuries Injury-prevention Injury Prevention Machine-operators Nonfatal Injuries Region-10 Safety Safety-research Surveillance-programs Traumatic-injuries

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  428-433
• Volume:
  47
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026730
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2005 May; 47(5):428-433
• Contact Point Address:
  Bradley J. Husberg, CDC/NIOSH/AFS, 4230 University Drive, Suite #310, Anchorage, AK 99508
• Email:
  bjh9@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6209164b5d6896fab53bbd08479497062c4edd3270b0bd9673a3f83bb69cd0d7a5a899c9774a995635734532a57fbc02d30317fbf8509aa01d08a1feaa2aa186
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/197366/cdc_197366_DS1.pdf
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