Occupational Fatalities in Alaska: Two Decades of Progress, 1990-1999 and 2000-2009

Lincoln, Jennifer M.; O'Connor, Mary B.; Retzer, Kyla; Hill, Ryan; Teske, Theodore; Woodward, Chelsea C.; Lucas, Devin L.; Somervell, Philip D.; Burton, Jason T.; Mode, Nicolle A.; Husberg, B. J.; Conway, George A.

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2012.08.023

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“…4 .52 ± 18.14 and 68.36 ± 37.7 for the for witness group. All eight domains of life quality except emotional roles limitation were significantly different between the study and control groups.…”

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“…According to the international labour organization (ILO) report, laborers experience about 270 million injuries and two million deaths each year in the world (3). The fatality rate of accidents in various countries was different during 2009; workplace fatality rate for Alaska was 5.6/100,000 workers and for the whole world this was 14.0 per 100,000 (1,4). Based on an investigation of ten years of occupational injuries in Korea from 2001 to 2010, the fatalities of construction, forest, agriculture, and service had an increasing trend and nonfatal occupational injuries of the manufacturing sector were higher than those of other sectors in every year but fatal occupational injuries of construction workers were higher than that of other sectors (5).…”

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Study of the Relationship Between Life Quality and Occupational Accidents in Wood Industry

2014

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Background: Occupational accidents are a major problem in industries and work environments. Objectives: This study aimed to study the relationship between workers' life quality and occupational accidents. Materials and Methods: This historical cohort study was conducted on 114 wood industry workers (living in the North of Iran) involved in a job related accident over the past 10 years. Among those with no job-related accidents, 118 workers were randomly selected so that both groups were comparable in terms of age, work history and type of job. Standardized form of SF36 for the Iranian culture was used to determine the life quality of workers. Furthermore, demographic factors were added to the SF36 questionnaire. Data were analyzed with the two independent samples t-test, Mann-Whitney and Chi-square test using the SPSS 19 software. Results: In this survey average scores for different aspects of life quality in the case group and control group were as follows, physical functioning 67.23 ± 2.413 and 81.99 ± 2.193 and mental health 59.12 ± 16.76 and 71.52 ± 18.14, respectively. There was an obvious and significant difference (P < 0.05) between physical and mental health of injured workers' life quality compared to the uninjured group (control group). The results showed that all eight domains of life quality except limitations due to emotional problems were significantly different between the study and control groups. Conclusions:The results of this study show that unsafe work condition and high-risk behavior of workers lead to job-related accidents which affect worker's health and their life quality.

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Study of the Relationship Between Life Quality and Occupational Accidents in Wood Industry

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“…As described in the Introduction, Lincoln and Lucas reported in July and October of 2010 on 116 commercial fishing fatalities in the GoM for the years 2000-2009 [4,20,21]. Lincoln and Lucas and Syron et al summarized circumstances for 165 GoM vessel-related fatalities through 2014 as shown in Figure 3 [4,5].…”

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Gulf of Mexico Seafood Harvesters: Part 1. Occupational Injury and Fatigue Risk Factors

Myers

Durborow

Kane

2018

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During 2000During -2009 Gulf of Mexico (GoM) fishers were killed (23% of the US total) while working in the shrimp, finfish, oyster, clam, and crab fisheries. The purpose of this literature review is to identify injury-related risk factors to better assess the frequency and severity of injuries experienced by fish harvesters in the GoM. Methods: The method of this study is a comprehensive narrative literature review of findings useful for the prevention of fatal and non-fatal injuries among GoM fish harvesters published since 2005. Search engine terms were used to identify relevant literature that included fatalities, injuries, fatigue, and several other terms in combination (e.g., string search with "fishing"). Results: We reviewed 48 articles; the most common cause of fish harvester deaths in the GoM is falls overboard with scant use of personal flotation devices and vessel disasters in which flooding and collision were the most lethal. The root cause of errors resulting in many disasters may have been operator fatigue, but fatigue is also an adverse health effect resulting from working conditions. Non-fatal injuries arise from multiple sources that include working with gears, slips and trips, struck-by or against objects, machine or line entanglements, and falls. Conclusion: Principal risk factors are a lack of sleep aboard fishing vessels, vessel flooding and collisions, poor weather, slips on deck, contact with gear, not wearing personal flotation devices, poor swimming ability, and fishing alone on a vessel or the deck.

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“…Previous studies have reported on trends in mortality from fatal accidents in fishing fleets from countries including Alaska, Britain, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Poland and the United States, mostly during the last 30 or 40 years [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Reports on the Alaskan, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish (trawler) and United States fishing fleets have reported large or moderate reductions over time in fatal accident rates while studies of Danish, British and Polish (small-scale) fishing have reported little or no improvement.…”

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Mortality from accidents, disease, suicide and homicide in the British fishing industry from 1900 to 2010

Roberts

Carter²

2015

International Maritime Health

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Occupational Fatalities in Alaska: Two Decades of Progress, 1990-1999 and 2000-2009

Cited by 18 publications

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Study of the Relationship Between Life Quality and Occupational Accidents in Wood Industry

Study of the Relationship Between Life Quality and Occupational Accidents in Wood Industry

Gulf of Mexico Seafood Harvesters: Part 1. Occupational Injury and Fatigue Risk Factors

Mortality from accidents, disease, suicide and homicide in the British fishing industry from 1900 to 2010

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