Preventing Injuries When Working with Ride-On Roller/Compactors

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• Personal Author:
  Casini, Virgil J.
• Description:
  Workers who operate or work around roller/compactors are at risk of injury from a machine rollover or being struck by the machine or its components. NIOSH recommends that injuries and deaths be prevented through wider use of rollover protective structures (ROPS) and seat belts on roller/compactors, training, establishing and adhering to safety plans and safe work practices, and using appropriate personal protective equipment. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Construction-equipment Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Motor-vehicles Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Road-construction Road-surfacing Traumatic-injuries

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2005101
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Periodical
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; 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:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025664
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-101467
• 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. 2005-101, 2004 Oct; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ad105798bca176a3edd88032052f067e5c40ec94146fe43abd4744c4e9310659904874dac941cacec404f61211409f6dfc1d7177fd38eb955411f40bc95c72ae
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209860/cdc_209860_DS1.pdf
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