Young Workers: Stay Alive on the Job! [2009]

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• Corporate Authors:
  Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
• Description:
  This booklet tells the stories of young workers aged 12-24 who were killed on the job in Oregon from 2003 through 2007. In those 5 years, 352 workers of all ages were killed on the job in Oregon, including 45 young workers. Traumatic injury is the leading cause of death in the USA for youth and young adults. The true stories told here may help you to recognize and avoid serious hazards on the job. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death at work. Other fatal events include falls, contact with machines, drowning, poisoning, and violence. All of these events, and more, are told in the stories on the following pages. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Aging Agriculture Automobiles Demography Electricity Forestry Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mortality Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Age-factors Age-groups Children Demographic-characteristics Electrical-safety Fall-protection Injuries Injury-prevention Logging-workers Machine-operators Mortality-data Mortality-rates Motor-vehicles Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Tractors Training Traumatic-injuries

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• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Publisher:
  Oregon Health and Science University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Pamphlet or Booklet
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-32
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039297
• Citation:
  Portland, OR: Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation, 2009 Apr; :1-32
• Contact Point Address:
  Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE) Program, Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park, L606, Portland, OR 97239-3098
• Email:
  orface@ohsu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services ; Wholesale and Retail Trade
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Health and Science University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040901
• Source Full Name:
  Young Workers: Stay Alive on the Job!
• End Date:
  20060831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:70f85d2369b01d16f9d50baa9ac226244595777e734c00ec8060f2a84097a414cca18402660a735cfee0c22b26f1e5ab4db160ed5475f4ede5cf45d9c66e1286
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/228637/cdc_228637_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.94 MB ]