Injury Risk to Those Who Operate Bulldozers at Mining Sites

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• Personal Author:
  Jaspal, Jasinder S. ; Mayton, Alan G. ; Turin, Fred C. ; Wiehagen, William J.
• Description:
  There are a number of injury risks faced by those who operate off-highway equipment at surface coal, metal, and nonmetal mines. Research was conducted by NIOSH, Pittsburgh Research Lab to describe serious injuries sustained by dozer operators while doing common production tasks at mining sites. Serious injuries are those that resulted in either a fatality or lost-time injury. The injury data was obtained from accident records compiled by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Eight hundred and seventy-three injury records (1988-97) were examined. These injuries resulted in 18 fatalities and 31,866 lost workdays. This article describes the key findings from this study along with a brief description of the method used to code and classify the accident data. This information could be useful to help safety professionals learn more about the kinds of specific injury risk faced by those who operate dozers and to explore ways to reduce the risk of injury. BFrom 1993 through 1997, there was a notable reduction (30%) in the number of serious injuries to dozer operators while performing common production tasks at surface mines. These safety improvements are in comparison to the baseline period (1988-1992). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Coal Coal Mining Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Metals Mining Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-rates Accident-statistics Accidents Coal-miners Coal-mining Injuries Machine-operation Machine-operators Metal-mining Miners Mining-equipment Mining-industry Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Risk-analysis Risk-factors Surface-mining Traumatic-injuries

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031442
• Citation:
  National Safety Council Newsletter 2002 Aug; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Safety Council Newsletter
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:833287796582a1d475b459e8f3224c62ecf90323f05562e0e4e0b9248f0893176e740ab0dadcc08d067377330c752cadfc6b67238bb28b980037440421166f65
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226697/cdc_226697_DS1.pdf
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