NIOSH Alert: Preventing Injuries and Deaths from Skid-Steer Loaders (Superseded)

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This document has been superseded and the new version can be found here. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) requests assistance in preventing injuries and deaths among workers who operate, service, or work near skid-steer loaders. This type of loader is commonly used in agriculture, construction, and general industry for materials handling and excavating. Recent NIOSH studies suggest that employers, supervisors, and workers may not appreciate the hazards of operating or working near skid-steer loaders; or they may not follow safe work procedures for controlling these hazards. This alert describes six deaths involving skid-steer loaders and recommends methods for preventing similar incidents. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Construction Industry Farmers Hazardous Substances Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-statistics Construction Construction-Search Deaths Health-hazards Heavy-equipment Injury-prevention Landscape-services-workers Loaders Materials-handling Occupational-hazards Skid-steer-loaders

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Alert
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB98117
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; Massachusetts ; Minnesota ; Missouri ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7 ; 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:
  1-22
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000047
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-128860
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 98-117, 1998 Feb; :1-22
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2b963424dfa1541c99f046d4bf5554d2d2958608f58a160168def21e0c9aa799bd5ff962fe7a1a8571021d71f8daac8256439af872af8373c595b29e2d25119e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209740/cdc_209740_DS1.pdf
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