Eye Injuries in Construction: Hazard Alert

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Description:
  In construction, more than 10,600 eye injuries each year force workers to miss work. Construction has a much higher rate of eye injuries than any other industry. The Hazards: Nails, tiny pieces of metal, splinters, and cut wire ends fly in the air. Mixing of cement, sawing, grinding, and chipping produce dusts and grit. So does heavy machinery moving across a site. Chemicals and welding arc can burn your eyes. If you are not careful, you can hurt your eyes or go blind. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Burns Construction Industry Construction Materials Eye Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Particulate Matter Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Safety Safety Management Sense Organs Sense Organs / Injuries Vision Disorders Welding Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-potential Accident-prevention Chemical-burns Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-materials Construction-workers Eye-damage Eye-injuries Eye-protection Eye-protective-equipment Eye-shields Eyes Eyesight Goggles Grinding-equipment Grinding-mills Hazards Injuries Injury-prevention Lost-work-days Machine-operators Machine-tools Particle-aerodynamics Particulate-dust Particulates Personal-protective-equipment Pneumatic-equipment Pneumatic-tools Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Sawmill-workers Tools Vision-disorders Welders 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:20039443
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2004 Dec; :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:
  2005
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040801
• Source Full Name:
  Eye Injuries in Construction: Hazard Alert
• End Date:
  20090630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:22611384033048412c432163a2795088118c25a5abe448461d9b4570cc48a35309c0090f74d49678f53cefed5307f9e5ffb9875e1f086a9c94e7ef4658a68246
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213079/cdc_213079_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 37.25 KB ]