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Xiuwen (Sue) Dong, DrPH
CPWR
Ph: 301-578-8500 ext.8528
Email: sdong@cpwr.com
Year One:
Year One research and key findings include:
Injury Underreporting among
Small Construction Establishments
This study found that small construction establishments are most
likely to underreport injuries, especially those of Hispanic workers. From this analysis, it is estimated that BLS captured just 25% of severe injuries among Hispanic workers and 60% of severe injuries among white non-Hispanic workers in small construction establishments.
Findings will be published in the American Journal of Industrial
Medicine. View the abstract via PubMed.
Trends in Fatal and Nonfatal Injuries, 1992-2008
The number of fatal injuries in construction increased about 35% from 1992 to 2006, then dropped 18% between 2007 and 2008. This trend reflects the fluctuation in overall construction employment during this period.
Overall, both fatal and nonfatal injury rates in construction declined. The death rate decreased 33% from 14.3 to 9.6 per 100,000 full-time-equivalents (FTEs) from 1992 to 2008, while nonfatal injury rates involving days away from work (DAFW) declined around 67% from 529.5 to 174.3 per 10,000 FTEs during this period.
These findings can be found in this report on the CPWR website.
Fatal Falls among Construction Workers, 1992-2008
Injuries from falls continued to be the No. 1 cause of fatalities in construction – a total of 6,304 deaths over 1992-2008. The percentage
of fatal falls went up from 28% of deaths in 1992 to 33% in 2008. More than 60% of fatal falls occurred at construction establishments with 10 or fewer employees.
Findings were included in the Proceedings of the 2010 NIOSH
International Conference on Fall Prevention and Protection.
Collaborations to Improve Existing Data Collection and Measurement
The Data Center collaborated with federal agencies and labor organizations including NIOSH, BLS, OSHA, and AFL-CIO, to improve existing surveillance data collection and measurement.
Research Team: Christina Daw, PhD, Xuanwen Wang, PhD, CPWR Data Center.
Abstract:
This project will track overall construction safety and health performance and provide the basis for interventions in order to protect construction workers from serious workplace injuries and illnesses. The specific aims of this project are to: monitor patterns and trends of fatal and nonfatal injuries and illnesses in the construction industry; characterize the changing construction industry and its workforce, identify emerging issues in construction safety and health, and develop performance measures for evaluations of the Construction Center as a whole and progress towards NORA’s strategic goals. This project will also provide timely assistance and technical consultations for all construction stakeholders, including construction workers, contractors, owners, labor unions, trade associations, government agencies, and professionals and professional associations.
We will conduct a set of studies using a multitude of large national datasets and Construction Databases that have been developed from our ongoing research efforts. A major product of this program will be the fifth edition of The Construction Chart Book: The U.S. Construction Industry and its Workers. This Chart Book and all other data products from this project will be continuously available to all construction stakeholders through the Construction Center’s Dissemination project and other strategies, including the Electronic Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health (eLCOSH), trade-specific reports, peer-reviewed journal papers, workshops, and conference presentations.
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