Small Businesses in Manufacturing

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  An estimated 15.9 million people worked in the Manufacturing Sector in 2008, which accounted for approximately 10.9% of the employed U.S. workforce. In 2008, about one in seven recordable workplace injuries and illnesses and one in thirteen workplace fatalities occurred in Manufacturing. In 2007 there were an estimated 302,836 companies in the Manufacturing Sector with fewer than 100 employees, accounting for approximately 91.4% of the U.S. manufacturing establishments. Small manufacturers face limited staff and financial resources dedicated to workplace safety and health. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Hazardous Substances Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Small Business Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Disease-prevention Health-hazards Industrial-education Industrial-environment Industrial-factory-workers Industrial-hazards Injury-prevention Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs Small-businesses Worker-health

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2010147
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20036880
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2010-110563
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: 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. 2010-147, 2010 May; :1-2
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209941/cdc_209941_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.13 MB ]