ABSTRACT
Thirteen authors from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health contribute to this summary of recent and ongoing national occupational mortality surveillance studies of construction workers, including studies conducted under NIOSH's Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation project, Sentinel Health Events project, National Occupational Mortality Surveillance System, and other projects.
Subject(s)
Accidents, Occupational/mortality , Facility Design and Construction , Occupational Diseases/mortality , Occupations/classification , Adolescent , Adult , Black or African American/statistics & numerical data , Cause of Death , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. , Occupations/statistics & numerical data , Population Surveillance , Sex Factors , United States/epidemiology , White People/statistics & numerical dataABSTRACT
Analysis of 1980-1985 death certificate data for the United States indicated that an average of 369 occupational deaths per year involved agricultural machinery as the external cause of death. Out of all agricultural machine-related deaths, tractors accounted for 69 percent. Over half of these tractor-related deaths were rollovers. There is a need for public health programs to affect greater use of rollover protective structures (ROPS) on farm tractors.
