To improve the estimates of occupational fatality rates for persons employed in the construction industry, several sources of data on the number of fatalities (the numerator) and the number of persons engaged in construction work (the denominator) were examined. Based on this examination, the Census
Fatal injuries in the construction industry in washington state
โ Scribed by Susan E. Buskin; Leonard J. Paulozzi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 519 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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The National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities (NTOF) surveillance system identified machinery-related incidents as the fourth leading cause of traumatic occupational fatalities in the U.S. construction industry between 1980 and 1992, resulting in 1,901 deaths and 2.13 deaths per 100,000 workers. Fa
Objective To compare fatal and hospitalized nonfatal work-related traumatic injuries by occupation and cause. Methods Fatal and hospitalized nonfatal injuries occurring from 1991ยฑ1995 were identiยฎed from Washington State workers' compensation claims data. Nonfatal injuries were classiยฎed as severe i