Noncoal Contractor Mining Facts – 2003

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In 2003, a total of 3,989 contracting companies reported employment at noncoal mines (metal, nonmetal, sand and gravel, and stone mines) to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). A total of 39,183 noncoal contractor employees, corresponding to 18,871 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees, were reported to MSHA in 2003. This is an increase of 1.8% in FTE noncoal contractor employees from 2002. Four work-related fatalities occurred among noncoal contractor employees in 2003, compared to six in 2002. There were 257 nonfatal lost-time injuries among noncoal contractor employees, occurring at a rate of 1.4 per 100 FTE employees in 2003. A total of 15,213 days lost from work resulted from these injuries. Twelve cases of occupational illness in noncoal contractor employees were reported to MSHA in 2003. There were five cases of heat/sunstroke; two cases each of hearing loss or impairment and joint, tendon, muscle inflammation or irritation; and one case each of asphyxia, noncontact electric burn, and an unclassified occupational disease. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Burns Contractors' Operations Hearing Loss Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Metals Mining Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Statistical-analysis; Employees; Injuries; Lost-work-days; Mine-workers; Mining-industry; Materials-handling; Back-injuries; Heat-stroke; Metal-mining; Nonmetal-mining; Sand-and-gravel-mines; Stone-mines; Hearing-loss; Hearing-impairment; Burns
• 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. 2005-122, 2005 Feb; :1
• Series:
  Mining Publications   ; 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
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025918
• Contact Point Address:
  NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9c89c90af046f0ebb1c3269a6d4c08925ea2b7b18bf6d97676003310ca19ac029f72cec560bc0397d2b474a16cee02cab55a0044512671a246112c92ca1bcac2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6050/cdc_6050_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 196.68 KB ]