Occupational electrical injuries in the United States, 1992–1998, and recommendations for safety research

Cawley, James; Homce, G.T.

doi:10.1016/s0022-4375(03)00028-8

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“…Electrocutions are disproportionately fatal compared with other work-related injuries, (14) and within our study, 1.2% of all cases were fatalities, suggesting that prevention of electrical injuries should be a top priority for workplace safety. These data may provide valuable guidance in improving guidelines for preventing both fatal and nonfatal electrical injuries, for example, the National Fire Protection Association's 70E (NFPA 70E) consensus "standard."…”

Section: Conclusion and Implications For Preventionsupporting

confidence: 48%

“…Most often, previous studies on electrical fatalities have primarily used data from the BLS CFOI (1,2,14) or focused on fatalities from a single occupation or industry (e.g., construction). (15) These studies have provided vital information for prevention of fatal electrical injuries.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These data may provide valuable guidance in improving guidelines for preventing both fatal and nonfatal electrical injuries, for example, the National Fire Protection Association's 70E (NFPA 70E) consensus "standard." (9) Likewise, the findings may help to identify opportunities for countermeasures and improvements to current recommendations for electrical safety, such as those that adhere to OSHA regulations and training programs, (14) including the use of ground fault circuit interrupters; lockout-tagout procedures; and proper grounding methods, training for hazard recognition and warning signs, work-equipment setup (e.g., ladders), and CPR training for co-workers as a last resort countermeasure.…”

Section: Conclusion and Implications For Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(13) To date, narrative analysis has been used primarily to understand factors related to fatalities based on data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) (14,15) and, to a limited extent, for nonfatal electrical injuries. (15) The primary objective of this descriptive study is to provide important data on the determinants of nonfatal electrical injuries resulting in workers' compensation claims and to apply some of the ideas developed in our earlier work on narrative analysis methods for injury research in order to develop a better way of describing and understanding electrical injuries.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Etiology of Work-Related Electrical Injuries: A Narrative Analysis of Workers' Compensation Claims

Lombardi

Matz

Brennan

et al. 2009

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

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The purpose of this study was to provide new insight into the etiology of primarily nonfatal, work-related electrical injuries. We developed a multistage, case-selection algorithm to identify electrical-related injuries from workers' compensation claims and a customized coding taxonomy to identify pre-injury circumstances. Workers' compensation claims routinely collected over a 1-year period from a large U.S. insurance provider were used to identify electrical-related injuries using an algorithm that evaluated: coded injury cause information, nature of injury, "accident" description, and injury description narratives. Concurrently, a customized coding taxonomy for these narratives was developed to abstract the activity, source, initiating process, mechanism, vector, and voltage. Among the 586,567 reported claims during 2002, electrical-related injuries accounted for 1283 (0.22%) of nonfatal claims and 15 fatalities (1.2% of electrical). Most (72.3%) were male, average age of 36, working in services (33.4%), manufacturing (24.7%), retail trade (17.3%), and construction (7.2%). Body part(s) injured most often were the hands, fingers, or wrist (34.9%); multiple body parts/systems (25.0%); lower/upper arm; elbow; shoulder, and upper extremities (19.2%). The leading activities were conducting manual tasks (55.1%); working with machinery, appliances, or equipment; working with electrical wire; and operating powered or nonpowered hand tools. Primary injury sources were appliances and office equipment (24.4%); wires, cables/cords (18.0%); machines and other equipment (11.8%); fixtures, bulbs, and switches (10.4%); and lightning (4.3%). No vector was identified in 85% of cases. and the work process was initiated by others in less than 1% of cases. Injury narratives provide valuable information to overcome some of the limitations of precoded data, more specially for identifying additional injury cases and in supplementing traditional epidemiologic data for further understanding the etiology of work-related electrical injuries that may lead to further prevention opportunities.

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Section: Conclusion and Implications For Preventionsupporting

confidence: 48%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conclusion and Implications For Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Etiology of Work-Related Electrical Injuries: A Narrative Analysis of Workers' Compensation Claims

Lombardi

Matz

Brennan

et al. 2009

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

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“…The study constitutes the descriptive analysis of the data collected. Same sort of study has also been conducted by Cawley and Homce (2003) in USA alongside the recommendations to reduce the accidental deaths in United States. Almost all the studies mentioned above have been limited to the descriptive analysis of the data or to some extend the tests of associations have been carried out to see the significant factors.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%