Factors influencing injury severity to highway workers in work zone intrusion accidents

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-38

  Wong, Jessica M ^a   Arico, Mary Catherine ^b   Ravani, Bahram ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

Author keywords

Injury severity; Work zone intrusion; Worker safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; TIME FACTORS; WORKPLACE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78951495727     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2010.525569     Document Type: Article

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