Key Findings from Research: Mortality of Construction Workers at DOE Nuclear Sites: A Follow-Up Study

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Description:
  Construction workers employed at nuclear weapons facilities have potential exposure to multiple hazards during facility construction, maintenance, and cleanup, including radiation, asbestos, silica, solvents, metals, and welding/ cutting gases and fumes. In 1993, Congress called for the Department of Energy to determine whether these workers were at significant risk for work-related illnesses and, if so, to provide them with medical surveillance to permit earlier disease detection. Since 1996 surveillance has been conducted through the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program (BTMed), a consortium comprised of CPWR, Duke University, and the UMD School of Medicine, with Zenith serving as the administrative coordinator. Previous studies of these workers have examined respiratory diseases, hearing loss, beryllium sensitivity, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, longitudinal lung function decline, and mortality. This study included 5,203 deaths among 24,086 BTMed participants from 28 sites and a range of trades. Mortality patterns were compared to the U.S. population. See the abstract: http://bit.ly/2kNd54c. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Mortality Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Construction Industry Construction Workers Mortality Data Mortality Rates Nuclear Hazards Radiation Exposure Surveillance Programs
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Key Findings from Research
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057516
• Citation:
  Key findings from research. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2019 Sep; :1
• Email:
  knutringen@msn.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Key findings from research
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212977/cdc_212977_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 51.76 KB ]