The effect of drywall lifting method on workers' balance in a laboratory-based simulation

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 235-249

  Pan, Christopher S ^a   Chiou, Sharon ^a   Hendricks, Scott ^a  

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

Author keywords

Center of mass; Center of pressure; Construction; Drywall; Kinematics; Kinetics; Lifting

Indexed keywords

EID: 52649152437     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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