Fatalities in the construction industry: findings from a revision of the BLS Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System

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• Personal Author:
  Dong, Xiuwen S. ; Largay, Julie A. ; Wang X ; Windau JA
• Description:
  Version 2.01 of the BLS Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System enables researchers to more readily identify factors that contribute to construction industry fatalities and provide the industry with insight into developing injury prevention strategies; the revision improves on current safety and health surveillance and will have long-term effects on safety and health intervention programs and policies targeted at both the construction industry and the overall U.S. workforce. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Automobiles Construction Industry Decision Making Occupational Health Safety Transportation
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Data-processing Decision-making Fall-protection Floors Ground-stability Height-factors Information-retrieval-systems Injuries Injury-prevention Job-analysis Ladders Motor-vehicles Occupations Roofing-industry Scaffolds Surveillance-programs Walking-surfaces

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• ISSN:
  0098-1818
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-16
• Volume:
  137
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046452
• Citation:
  Mon Labor Rev 2014 Jul; 137(7):1-16
• Email:
  sdong@cpwr.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Monthly Labor Review
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201507/cdc_201507_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 304.97 KB ]