Occupational drownings

Details

• Personal Author:
  Lincoln, Jennifer E.
• Description:
  Worldwide, more than 300,000 workers are killed each year by traumatic injuries. Work-related deaths have important societal impacts particularly in low- and middle-income countries where numerous people are involved in high-risk industries such as agriculture, fishing, and mining. In the United States, the leading causes of work-related deaths are highway crashes, homicides, falls, and struck by object. Drownings, however, occur to workers exposed to environmental hazards leading to submersion. Any maritime worker, including commercial fishers, merchant mariners, tugboat operators, and other water transportation workers, is exposed to drowning hazards. Construction workers, agricultural workers, and groundskeepers are also exposed to these hazards. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Agriculture
  • Construction Industry
  • Environmental Exposure
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Farmers
  • Hunting
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Transportation
• Keywords:
  • Marine-workers
  • Environmental-hazards
  • Fishing-industry
  • Transportation-industry
  • Construction-workers
  • Agricultural-industry
  • Agricultural-workers
  • Farmers
  • Groundskeeping-workers
  • Landscape-services-workers
• ISBN:
  9783642042522
• Publisher:
  Springer
• Document Type:
  Text
• Editor:
  Bierens JJLM
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  APRO - Alaska Pacific Regional Office ; WSD - Western States Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  139-142
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046424
• Citation:
  Drowning: prevention, rescue, treatment, second edition. Bierens-JJLM, ed. Amsterdam: Springer, 2015 Mar; :139-142
• Editor(s):
  Bierens JJLM
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Drowning: prevention, rescue, treatment, second edition
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201488/cdc_201488_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 157.06 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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