Caught-In/Between Injuries and Prevention in the Construction Industry

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• Personal Author:
  Dong, Xiuwen S. ; Gustafson, Gary ; Katz, Rebecca ; Le, Chris ; Wang, Xuanwen
• Description:
  Caught-in/between hazards, along with falls, struck-by, and electrocution, are the Focus Four hazards identified by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration as leading causes of fatalities in construction (OSHA, 2011). To prevent construction workers from caught-in/between injuries, specific hazards and working environments should be taken into account for safety and health intervention programs. This Quarterly Data Report provides updated data on deaths and injuries from being caught or crushed in collapsing materials or being caught or compressed by objects and equipment. Primary sources of caught-in/between injuries and vulnerable worker groups for such injuries were also analyzed and are presented in the report. Numbers of fatal and nonfatal injuries were obtained from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) and the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), respectively. Both the CFOI and SOII are data collections of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In addition to the BLS data, this report introduces solutions to prevent caught-in/between injuries selected from a variety of sources, including OSHA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and CPWR. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Electric Injuries Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety

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• Keywords:
  Construction; Construction-industry; Construction-workers; Safety-research; Accident-potential; Accident-prevention; Mortality data; Mortality rates; Mortality studies; Bureau of Labor Statistics; BLS; Occupational Safety and Health Administration; OSHA; Accident analysis; Accident rates; Accident statistics; Information systems; Statistical analysis; Risk factors; Surveillance; Falling objects; Falls; Electrocutions; Machine guarding; Machine safety; Fatalities; Occupational hazards; Equipment operation; Injuries; Injury prevention; Intervention
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  22 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051126
• Citation:
  CPWR Quarterly Data Report. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2017 Dec; :1-22
• Email:
  SDong@cpwr.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• 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/231538/cdc_231538_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.73 MB ]