Postural stability associated with restricted ceiling height mining tasks

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 91-114

  Bhattacharya, Amit ^a   Succop, Paul ^a   Kincl, Laurel ^a   Gordon, Jessica ^a   Sobeih, Tarek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Base of support; Loss of balance; Low seam mining task; Miners; Perceived sense of slip and fall; Postural instability

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849206508     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/OER-2009-0161     Document Type: Article

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