Work-related injuries in the Alaska logging industry, 1991-2014.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although loggers in Alaska are at high risk for occupational injury, no comprehensive review of such injuries has been performed since the mid-1990s. We investigated work-related injuries in the Alaska logging industry during 1991-2014.

Methods

Using data from the Alaska Trauma Registry and the Alaska Occupational Injury Surveillance System, we described fatal and nonfatal injuries by factors including worker sex and age, timing and geographic location of injuries, and four injury characteristics. Annual injury rates and associated 5-year simple moving averages were calculated.

Results

We identified an increase in the 5-year simple moving averages of fatal injury rates beginning around 2005. While injury characteristics were largely consistent between the f

SUBMITTER: Springer YP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7011116 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature