Construction injury rates may exceed national estimates: Evidence from the construction of Denver International Airport

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 105-112

  Glazner, Judith E ^a,c   Borgerding, Joleen ^a   Lowery, Jan T ^a   Bondy, Jessica ^a   Mueller, Kathryn L ^a   Kreiss, Kathleen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c UCHSC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

BLS data; Construction injury; Injury severity; Occupational injury; Workers' compensation; Workers' compensation payments

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CALCULATION; DISABILITY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIRCRAFT; COLORADO; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 0031859867     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199808)34:2<105::AID-AJIM2>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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