Mechanical Timber Harvesting Reduces Workers' Compensation Injury Claims in West Virginia [2005]

Details

• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Logging companies in West Virginia using mechanized harvesters had a significantly lower workers' compensation injury claim rate than did the rest of the West Virginia logging industry. Companies that were only partially mechanized (feller buncher plus chainsaw operators/fellers) still showed a significant reduction in the rate of injury claims. The use of mechanized fellers will be limited in some areas because of economic and other constraints such as the cost of purchasing fellers and the steepness of the terrain in West Virginia . However, the West Virginia logging industry as a whole may see substantial declines in injury claim rates if mechanized fellers are used whenever possible. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  "CDC workplace safety and health."
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. [2-3]).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Forestry Logging Machinery Occupational Health Prevention Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention; Accidents; Accident-rates; Logging-workers; Lumber-industry-workers; Lumber-industry; Lumberjacks; Forestry-workers; Forestry; Injuries; Injury-prevention
• Source:
  Morgantown, WV: 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. 2005-129, 2005 May; :1-4
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026833
• Contact Point Address:
  Jennifer L. Bell, Ph.D., National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Safety Research, 1095 Willowdale Road, MS -1811, Morgantown, WV 26505-2888
• Email:
  JBell@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Intervention Effectiveness Research
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:56e4980604201dacc93f47e0859bb8e6bfd746c46b4a2f87b095147ce309866a6ead47999210e81bd9b2c146c8f2880108d61b0854c6e9beeeb0dca845e10f3e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6051/cdc_6051_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.13 MB ]