Don't get hurt working around sanitation trucks.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  From 1991 to 2009, 36 workers were killed while working on or near sanitation trucks in New Jersey. Many more were injured. Tweleve workers were killed by vehicles. Serven were run over by the sanitation truck. Five were run over by a car. Fifteen workers who were riding on the riding step were killed. Four workers were crushed to death between the truck and a dumpster. Five drivers were killed when their truck hit another vehicle. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Hazardous Substances Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mortality Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Transportation Waste Management

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• Keywords:
  Hazards; Health-hazards; Mortality-data; Injuries; Traumatic-injuries; Injury-prevention; Accidents; Accident-potential; Accident-prevention; Accident-analysis; Sanitation; Waste-disposal; Machine-operation; Machine-operators; Equipment-operators; Drivers; Motor-vehicles; Truck-drivers; Transport-mechanisms; Transportation; Safety-education; Safety-measures; Safety-practices; Work-practices
• Publisher:
  New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040417
• Citation:
  Trenton, NJ: Public Health Services Branch, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Division of Epidemiology, Environmental, and Occupational Health, Occupational Health Service Occupational Health Surveillance Program, 2011 Mar; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Environmental and Occupational Health Surveillance Program, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, PO Box 369, Trenton NJ 08625-0369
• Email:
  surveillance@doh.state.nj.us
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040901
• Source Full Name:
  Don't get hurt working around sanitation trucks
• End Date:
  20060831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/245922/cdc_245922_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]