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A new NIOSH-funded study from J. Paul Leigh, a professor of public health sciences at the University of California – Davis, determined that the cost of job-related injuries and illnesses is $250 billion, which is $31 billion more than the cost of all cancers and $76 billion more than the cost of diabetes. The study results beg the question: Is industry and the federal government doing enough to eliminate occupational injuries and illnesses and their associated costs? Source : http://ehstoday.com/safety/management/skyrocketing-cost-occupational-injuries-0117/?imw=Y
This Chartbook provides a summary of fatal and nonfatal injury/illness information describing a large population of understudied workplaces and workers: the wholesale and retail trade (WRT) sector. The WRT sector consists of one of ten industry sectors formed from stakeholder meetings conducted throughout the U.S. by NIOSH that served to define the structure of the second decade of NORA. The contents of the WRT Chartbook are based on data from the mid-decade year of 2005. This year was chosen to serve as the baseline for the WRT sector, which corresponds to the launch of the second decade of NORA...
Dr. Sue Dong of CPWR - the US Center for Construction Research and Training - recently presented new research findings at the American Public Health Association conference, showing that construction workers have a significantly higher lifetime risk of premature death due to occupational injury (1/200 chance of dying from a work-related injury over a 45-year career). Given that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration considers a lifetime risk of 1 death in 1,000 workers to be significant, the findings of Dr. Dong et al. are important. Source : Presentation : www.cpwr.com/pdfs/Dong_APHA_Lifetime...
NIOSH a publié plusieurs fiches statistiques sur le secteur minier comprenant: le nombre d'employés, le nombre d'accident mortels, le nombre d'accidents avec blessures, etc. Elles sont disponibles à partir de la page What's New on the NIOSH Website , September 2011, en date du 23 septembre: In 2008, a total of 14,907 mining operations reported employment data to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Almost half (47.8%) were sand and gravel mines, followed by stone mines (31.1%), coal mines (14.3%), nonmetal mines (4.8%), and metal mines (2.0%).....
Nearly the same number of workers lost their lives as a result of fatal workplace injuries in 2010 as in 2009, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. A total of 4,547 fatal occupational injuries occurred in 2010, compared to the 4,551 fatalities recorded in 2009. Source : http://ehstoday.com/safety/news/bls-worker-fatality-count-holds-steady-0829/
Based on the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 1992-2002 This document adds an economic dimension to existing research efforts addressing the incidence and prevalence measures of loss associated with fatal occupational injury. This research effort is long standing within the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and has been previously reported in such documents as The Cost of Fatal Injuries to Civilian Workers in the United States, 1992–2001, which is based on the counts of traumatic occupational fatalities identified through the NIOSH National Traumatic Occupational...
Risk Factors and Recommendations NIOSH recently completed an in-depth study of commercial fishing fatalities in the United States during 2000-2009. The purpose of the study was to identify the most hazardous fisheries around the country and to describe the unique safety issues in each. For this study the US was divided into four fishing regions: Alaska, West Coast, East Coast, and the Gulf of Mexico. Alaska : http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2011-103/ West Coast : http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2011-104/ East Coast : http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2011-105/ Gulf of Mexico : http://www.cdc.gov/niosh...
On Oct. 21, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses among private industry employers declined in 2009 to a rate of 3.6 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers, down from a total case rate of 3.9 in 2008. Combined, the manufacturing and construction industry sectors represented more than half of the total decline in injuries and illnesses in 2009. Source : http://ehstoday.com/safety/news/bls-nonfatal-occupational-injuries-declined-1022/ Statistiques : http://www.bls.gov/news.release/osh.toc.htm
A preliminary total of 4,340 fatal work injuries were recorded in the United States in 2009, down from a final count of 5,214 fatal work injuries in 2008. The 2009 total represents the smallest annual preliminary total since the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) program was first conducted in 1992. Based on this preliminary count, the rate of fatal work injury for U.S. workers in 2009 was 3.3 per 100,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers, down from a final rate of 3.7 in 2008. Counts and rates are likely to increase with the release of final 2009 CFOI results in April 2011. Over the...
10 States, 2007 Approximately 4 million occupational nonfatal injuries and illnesses among workers were reported by employers in the United States in 2007. Research indicates that self-reported, nonfatal, occupational injury rates exceed estimates from employer reports or state workers’ compensation systems. To estimate the incidence of self-reported work-injured persons and the proportion of those injured for whom workers’ compensation insurance programs paid for medical care, 10 states added a module to their 2007 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey. This report...
From 1998-2007, younger workers experienced approximately twice as many nonfatal occupational injuries as older workers, and employers must make changes in workplace environments and practices to protect this population, according to the April 23 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The report, conducted by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), pointed out that younger workers in the United States represent 14 percent of the labor force “and face high risk of injury while on the job.” Source : http://ehstoday.com/safety/news/mmwr-younger-workers-experience...
For the first time, OSHA has made the work-related injury and illness data collected from more than 80,000 employers from 1996 to 2007 available in a searchable online database, allowing the public to look at establishment or industry-specific injury and illness data. Source : http://ehstoday.com/standards/osha/osha-releases-workplace-injury-illness-information-5411/
Preliminary data from the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) indicates that mine fatalities in 2009 fell to an all-time low for the second straight year. Coal mines recorded 18 mining deaths, and metal/nonmetal mines recorded 16 mining deaths, for a combined total of 34 mining deaths nationwide and a significant drop from last year's total of 52 deaths. Source : http://ohsonline.com/articles/2010/01/06/mining-fatalities-fell-to-alltime-low-in-2009.aspx
Industry by event or exposure, 2008 Industry by transportation incidents and homicides, 2008 Industry by private sector, government workers, and self-employed workers, 2008 Primary and secondary source of injury by major private industry division, 2008 Occupation by event or exposure, 2008 Occupation by transportation incidents and homicides, 2008 Worker characteristics by event or exposure, 2008 Event or exposure by age, 2008 Event or exposure by major private industry division, 2008 http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm#2008
In the ten year period April 1999 to March 2009 there were 33 fatal injuries (excluding those to contractors) in the food and drink manufacturing industries. These fatalities involved machinery (over 30%), workplace transport (over 25%), falls from height (over 20%) and confined spaces/asphyxiation (over 10%). http://www.hse.gov.uk/food/fatal.htm
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