Falls in residential carpentry and drywall installation: Findings from active injury surveillance with union carpenters

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 881-890

  Lipscomb, Hester J ^a   Dement, John M ^a   Nolan, James ^b   Patterson, Dennis ^b   Li, Leiming ^a   Cameron, Wilfred ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Carpenters Dist Cncl Gtr S Louis   (United States)

^c The Center for Construction Research and Training   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARPENTER; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; LABOR UNIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MISSOURI; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; WORKERS' COMPENSATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0042161575     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000083037.56116.d4     Document Type: Article

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