Injuries Among Construction Workers in Rural Iowa: Emergency Department Surveillance

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• Personal Author:
  Lynch CF ; Miller ER ; Torner J ; Zwerling C
• Description:
  A study was conducted examining patterns of injury in construction workers in rural areas. Data on injuries to construction workers were obtained from emergency room reports from nine emergency rooms in contiguous, rural counties in northwest Iowa. About half of all of the injuries treated in construction workers between September, 1993 and August, 1994 were work related compared with 38.7% for all employed men and 23.9% for all employed women. The combined injury rate for male and female construction workers was 2.7 times that for all employed people and the work related injury rate was 4.6 times that of all employed people. Nearly half of the construction injury visits were by those under 30 years of age. Construction occupations had approximately a 10% greater proportion of injuries that was work related compared with other occupations. In addition, construction workers had a higher proportion of burn injuries, injuries involving a ladder or scaffold, and injuries caused by crushing, cutting, and piercing. These workers had a lower incidence of transportation related injuries. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Construction Industry Emergency Responders Epidemiology Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-rates Accident-statistics Age-factors Construction-industry Construction-workers Emergency-care NIOSH-Cooperative-Agreement NIOSH-Publication Occupational-accidents 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
• Volume:
  38
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00234549
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 1996 Jul; 38(7):698-704
• Contact Point Address:
  Craig Zwerling, MD, PhD, MPH, The University of Iowa, Injury Prevention Research Center, 100 Oakdale Campus, 124 AMRF, Iowa City, IA 52242-5000
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Upper Extremities
• Performing Organization:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19920930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  19950929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4f9f443cb9c828811425fcd5933687a6654e4414bb28bcd84d6315babb8714540eacb74eb8a3ca63cf283335532d4f43a3940068d045b8d20dfb11a5de9911a5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/197720/cdc_197720_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.16 MB ]