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

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  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. NIOSH studies in the 1990s suggested that employers, supervisors, and workers may not fully appreciate the potential hazards associated with operating or working near skid-steer loaders and 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:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Construction Industry Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety

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• Keywords:
  Accident-potential Accident-prevention Agricultural-machinery Construction-equipment Equipment-operators Excavation-equipment Industrial-equipment Injuries Injury-prevention Materials-handling-equipment Materials-transport Mortality-data Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Surveillance Traumatic-injuries

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Alert
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2011128
• 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:
  1-18
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038121
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2011-103914
• 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. 2011-128, 2010 Dec; :1-18
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1a25fa2af7a5dff6c8debf51a6427c6649f1c7d95973db6065642bd1a91a1cc7428695d7c2efa0e12b08fce61b11b4b46d067421fd5d2d185286b47d84eca111
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209959/cdc_209959_DS1.pdf
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