Injury Hazards in the Construction Industry

Kisner, Suzanne M.; Fosbroke, David E.

doi:10.1097/00043764-199402000-00008

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“…The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reports a rate of 25.6 per 100,000 FfEs, using the National Traumatic Occupational Fatal ities data base. The yearly estimated number of deaths in construction in the 1980s ranges from 778 (BLS) to 958 (OSHA, for 1985 to 1989), and even higher (18).…”

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Safety and Health in the Construction Industry

Ringen¹

1995

Annual Review of Public Health

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Workers in the building. renovation, and demolition of roads and commercial structures in the U.S. suffer a disproportionate share of occupational fatalities and lost-time injuries. Nearly all of the injuries and deaths are preventable.The fatality rate from work-related ailments. such as cancers and silicosis, is believed to be excessive, but is not generally computed. The safety and health problems are tied largely to the construction industry'S organization and how the work is performed. Many hazardous exposures result from inadequacies in access to information, measurement technology, and personal protective equipment. Potential solutions are in labor-management site safety and health planning and management. education and training of workers and supervisors, new technologies, federal regulation, workers' compensation law, medical monitoring, and occupational health delivery. Public health opportunities in volve health care delivery systems, improved preventive medicine, disability determination and rehabilitation programs, and research, beginning with the standardization of data to monitor these problems.

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Safety and Health in the Construction Industry

Ringen¹

1995

Annual Review of Public Health

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“…Modelling of the causal processes of accidents and injuries in the construction industry is less mature, with previous research largely confined to the collection, analysis and interpretation of data derived from regulatory accident reporting schemes (eg Hinze and Russell, 1995;Hunting et al, 1994;Kisner and Fosbroke, 1994;and Snashall, 1990). This approach is limited by problems with data collection (eg under reporting) and the broad classifications used for coding.…”

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Contributing factors in construction accidents

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“…The analyses of occupational fatalities in construction have focused on general causes [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] , specific external causes, for example machinery 13) , trench cave-ins 14) , hand tools 15) , falls [16][17][18] , electrocutions 19,20) and specific occupations, such as labourers 21,22) , painters 23) and only focused on pedestrian fatalities 24) . Although occupational injuries caused by motor vehicles have been researched including cost of casualties 25) and focused on roadway construction work zones 26) , detailed research in construction industry are few 27) .…”

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Construction Equipment and Motor Vehicle Related Injuries on Construction Sites in Turkey

Gürcanlı

Müngen

Akad³

2008

Ind Health

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Research on occupational accidents on construction sites in Turkey is very few. Moreover, research on motor vehicle and equipment accidents also do not exist. Investigation in the scope of this study shows that after falls and contact with electricity, accidents involving heavy equipment and motor vehicles rank third and fourth, respectively. This study aims to reveal the characteristics of these types of accidents, deduct the prominent causes that lead to fatalities as well as permanent disabilities using the present data. With the aid of obtained results, recommendations are made for safety experts on how to derive data from insufficient sources in Turkey and to evaluate these data for prevention and mitigation of the risks that construction workers are exposed to. 168 fatal and 38 non-fatal traffic accident-caused incidents as well as 206 fatal and 97 non-fatal construction equipment accidents, which were selected from official statistics and expert reports, were taken into consideration. Analysis and classification of these accidents were done according to the way they happened, the type of construction site and the occupation of the victims. Moreover, the leading causes of fatal and non-fatal injuries, to which drivers, operators and co-operators are exposed, are presented. Critical findings concerning prominent ways of occurrence, type of construction work and occupation are presented; and a number of measures for reducing the present risks are suggested. Some approaches for analysing relevant data are proposed for further research.

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Injury Hazards in the Construction Industry

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Safety and Health in the Construction Industry

Safety and Health in the Construction Industry

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Construction Equipment and Motor Vehicle Related Injuries on Construction Sites in Turkey

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