Expanded Analysis of Injury Mortality Among Unionized Construction Workers

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• Personal Author:
  Alterman, Toni ; Burnett C ; Chen GX ; Halperin, William E. ; Johnston JJ ; Steenland, Kyle ; Stern F
• Description:
  To evaluate the utility of expanding the number and precision of injury categories used in previous occupational mortality studies, this study reanalyzed data from four previous studies of unionized construction workers (construction laborers, ironworkers, sheet metal workers, and operating engineers), by expanding the number of injury categories from 6 to 33. Proportionate mortality ratios (PMRs) were computed using the distribution of deaths from the National Occupational Mortality Surveillance System, a mortality surveillance system from 28 states, as a comparison. A blue collar comparison group was also used in additional analyses to adjust for socioeconomic and other factors. This reanalysis identified significantly elevated PMRs in at least one of the four worker groups for falls, motor vehicle crashes, machinery incidents, electrocutions, being struck by falling objects, being struck by flying objects, explosions, suffocation, and water transport incidents. Limiting the comparison population to deaths among blue collar workers did not change the results substantially. This study demonstrates that increasing the precision of categories of death from injury routinely used in mortality studies will provide improved information to guide prevention. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Demography Epidemiology Ferrous Compounds Metal Workers Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Construction Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Demographic-characteristics Fatal Injury Iron-workers Mortality-data Mortality-rates Mortality-surveys National Occupational Mortality Surveillance NOMS Occupation Occupational-accidents Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Proportionate Mortality Ratio Statistical-analysis Traumatic-injuries

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  364-373
• Volume:
  37
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20020640
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2000 Apr; 37(4):364-373
• Contact Point Address:
  Guang X. Chen, MD, Division of Safety Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mailstop P-1133, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV, 26505-2888
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• 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-512:91800515f27657c568ac9a2f7e5825e4e9282a41567814adc81f36da9ee0b315a8806154f60d433bf059925f2a8dd7a356af0d2d7b2bc12cdb8d496bc4332b02
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/198325/cdc_198325_DS1.pdf
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