Back Injuries: Hazard Alert

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Description:
  In construction, 25 percent of injuries are back injuries. Construction has the highest rate of back injuries of any industry, except transportation. Every year, a back injury causes 1 in 100 construction workers to miss work - usually missing about 7 workdays, but sometimes more than 30. Most of the back problems are low-back injuries. Repeated injury to your back can cause permanent damage and end your career. Most back injuries are sprains and strains from lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing, and pulling materials. You are at higher risk of low-back injury if you often carry heavy loads, must twist while carrying heavy loads, or work a lot while bent over or in other awkward postures. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Construction Industry Construction Materials Ergonomics Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Back-injuries Body-regions Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-materials Construction-workers Equipment-design Force Hazards Human-factors-engineering Injuries Injury-prevention Lost-work-days Manual-lifting Manual-materials-handling Materials-handling Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Overloading Posture Repetitive-work Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Spasms Weight-factors Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health

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• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Publisher:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• 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:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039434
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2004 Apr; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Building and Construction Trades Dept., AFL-CIO: CPWR, Suite 1000, 8484 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19990930
• Source Full Name:
  Back injuries: hazard alert
• End Date:
  20050630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cef6abf752bbc1903dfedaf1c90ef168d5a6d3ae6196ac9e5386fff5fa3e7094eb8ce31e896c221ec9adbdb7d44669a7b11fcbc2083089799969a78b805afd8b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213064/cdc_213064_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 32.96 KB ]