Sand & Gravel Operator Mining Facts – 2002

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• Alternative Title:
  Sand and gravel operator mining facts - 2002
• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In 2002, a total of 7,125 sand and gravel mining operations reported employment to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). A total of 36,535 employees, corresponding to 32,753 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees, were reported by sand and gravel operators. This is a 2.4% decrease in FTE employees from 2001. Ten work-related fatalities occurred among sand and gravel miners in 2002, compared to eight in 2001. There were 826 nonfatal lost-time injuries among sand and gravel employees occurring at a rate of 2.5 per 100 FTE employees. A total of 39,556 days lost from work resulted from these injuries. Twenty cases of occupational illness were reported to MSHA for sand and gravel employees. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hearing Loss Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mining Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Sand-and-gravel-mines; Mine-workers; Mining-industry; Employees; Injuries; Lost-work-days; Materials-handling; Back-injuries; Hearing-impairment; Hearing-loss; Statistical-analysis
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: 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. 2004-127, 2004 Jan; :1
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024372
• Contact Point Address:
  NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a4fea6b6d5f3e9384dad33db583ee9ae806c530632f02d9610fdb9c20cdfd3fb4073089d10f293e7042bcdc7daa95459a4a0208b056529ef9214787195fb1644
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5750/cdc_5750_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 186.42 KB ]