Fact Sheet: Fatal Injuries Among Landscape Services Workers

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  An average of 197 landscape services workers died from on-the-job injuries each year between 2003 and 2006. The fatality rate for the landscape services industry, about 25 deaths per 100,000 workers, is similar to that for more recognized high-risk industries such as agriculture and mining. Although landscape services workers make up 0.8% of the U.S. workforce, they experienced 3.5% of the total occupational fatalities. Landscape services workers complete jobs such as landscape and irrigation installation, lawn care, tree removal, general landscape maintenance and snow removal. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  999556
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. [4]).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Epidemiology Forestry Mortality Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Injuries; Injury-prevention; Traumatic-injuries; Lawn-and-garden-equipment; Epidemiology; Statistical-analysis; Forestry-workers; Landscape-services-workers; Groundskeeping-workers; Surveillance-programs
• Source:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2008-144, 2008 Oct; :1-4
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Fact Sheet
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034647
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2009-102061
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:49bf79d782a4aa0b139c634f5b071fa7631bcba19761f4e2966ced27b212e0181aed108ef868babd97aa16776f6f6f2338c230ebeee1e26e8c6687d373fb7e9c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5622/cdc_5622_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.48 MB ]