Work-Related Injuries in the Alaska Logging Industry, 1991–2014

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• Personal Author:
  Castrodale LJ ; Lucas DL ; McLaughlin JB ; Springer YP
• Description:
  Background: Although loggers in Alaska are at high risk for occupational injury, no comprehensive review of such injuries has been performed since the mid-1990s. We investigated work-related injuries in the Alaska logging industry during 1991-2014. Methods: Using data from the Alaska Trauma Registry and the Alaska Occupational Injury Surveillance System, we described fatal and nonfatal injuries by factors including worker sex and age, timing and geographic location of injuries, and four injury characteristics. Annual injury rates and associated 5-year simple moving averages were calculated. Results: We identified an increase in the 5-year simple moving averages of fatal injury rates beginning around 2005. While injury characteristics were largely consistent between the first 14 and most recent 10 years of the investigation, the size of logging companies declined significantly between these periods. Conclusions: Factors associated with declines in the size of Alaska logging companies might have contributed to the observed increase in fatal injury rates. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Aircraft Demography Forestry Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-rates Accident-statistics Aircrews Author Keywords: Chainsaw Chain Saws Demographic Characteristics Falling Objects Fatalities Helicopter Humans Information Retrieval Systems Injuries Logging Industry Logging Workers Mortality-data Mortality-rates Mortality-surveys Occupational Accidents Occupational Hazards Statistical Analysis Surveillance Timber Tongass National Forest Traumatic-injuries Tree

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; Georgia ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  WSD - Western States Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  32-41
• Volume:
  61
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050659
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2018 Jan; 61(1):32-41
• Contact Point Address:
  Yuri P. Springer, PhD, Alaska Division of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, 3601C St., Suite 540, Anchorage, AK 99503
• Email:
  yurispringer@gmail.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:bd7dc3541b9a471ca5a2b2b6cbcef35498286e6cbbbe45f27dc1ba879afde2b8bc422790d502987cd531808f5fae89bec87c3fd53600654de32676a6be490740
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210912/cdc_210912_DS1.pdf
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