Work-related Injuries to Animal Care Workers, Washington 2007–2011

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Ind Med
• Personal Author:
  Fowler, Heather ; Adams, Darrin ; Bonauto, David ; Rabinowitz, Peter
• Description:
  Background ; For workers engaged in animal care, workplace hazards are common and may outnumber those experienced by human healthcare workers.. ; Methods ; We used accepted Washington State workers’ compensation claims for the period from January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2011 to compare injury rates and types of injuries across animal care occupations. ; Results ; Work-related injuries frequently affect veterinary support staff and those working in pet stores, shelters, grooming, and kennels. Animal-related injuries were the most commonly reported injury type experienced by all groups, though the animal source of injury appears to differ by work setting. ; Conclusions ; Workplace related injuries among animal care workers are common and most often caused by physical insults resulting from worker-animal interaction.
• Subjects:
  • Article
  • Veterinary
  • Veterinary Medical/Animal Care workers
  • Animal-related injury
  • Animal bite
  • Dogs
  • Cats
  • pet stores
  • grooming
  • shelters
  More +
• Source:
  Am J Ind Med. 59(3):236-244.
• Pubmed ID:
  26681112
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4872621
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  T32 ES015459/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States ; U54 OH007544/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  59
• Issue:
  3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/52352/cdc_52352_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 147.77 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:428ae4da48df4ec646c23083a8a0c65b957bf71ac8071967b7807673392bb6a1