The Role of Employee Tenure in Construction Injuries: The Tennessee Case

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• Personal Author:
  Cressler T ; Higgins T ; Moore J ; Taylor E ; Wagner J
• Description:
  It is generally agreed that "new" employees are likely to experience more injuries than those who have been on the job for some time. As Jimmy W. Hinze indicated in his classic 1997 text on construction safety: "One of the basic tenets of worker safety is that new workers pose a high safety risk." Or, as reported more recently and in more detail in Safety and Health magazine (June 2016): "Employees in their first month on the job have more than 3 times the risk for a lost time injury than workers who have been at their job for more than a year, according to research from the Toronto-based Institute for Work and Health." While the basic point regarding inflated risk for new workers is common in the safety literature, the character of the resulting injuries is seldom considered. This document attempts to fill that gap. Although limited in geographical extent to Tennessee and in temporal scope to 2014 and 2015, this case study examines injury issues including Type, Cause, Body Part, and severity as well as examining the role of employer establishment size. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Construction Industry Construction Workers Injuries Occupational Safety Risk Factors Safety Research Surveillance Workers Compensation
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Case Studies
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Tennessee
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-28
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057522
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2019 Apr; :1-28
• Contact Point Address:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910
• 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:
  The role of employee tenure in construction injuries: the Tennessee case
• 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/214853/cdc_214853_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 394.49 KB ]