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NOIRS 2000 ABSTRACTS
Division of Safety Research
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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CONTENTS
DAY ONE-TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2000
CONCURRENT SESSION: A
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Session: A1.0-Title: Special Population at Risk: The Aging
Workforce
Category: Special Session
Organized by Suzanne Marsh, National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health
Moderator(s): David Wegman
A1.1 The Aging Workforce: Demographic Trends and Factors Affecting the Risk of Injury
A1.2 Occupational Fatalities Among Older Workers in the United States
A1.3 Nonfatal Workplace Injuries to Older Workers: Evidence From the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illness
A1.4 Injury Rates Among Women and Older Workers in Metal Manufacturing
Session: A2.0-Title: New Directions in Machinery Risk
Assessment
Category: Special Session
Organized by Mike Taubitz, General Motors Corporation and John Etherton, NIOSH
Moderator(s): Mike Taubitz and John Etherton
A2.1 Risk Assessment Developments in the USA
A2.2 Perspectives on International Machinery Risk Assessment
A2.3 Risk Management for Machinery-related Injury Prevention
A2.4 Developing Teaching Aids for Machine Risk Reduction with Safeguarding
Session: A3.0-Title: Prevention of Occupationally-acquired
Bloodborne Pathogen Infections
Category: Special Session
Organized by the NIOSH HIV Activity
Moderator(s): Janice Huy and Linda Chiarello
A3.1 Using EPINet Surveillance Data to Support Public Policy
A3.2 Health Risks in Correctional Health Care Workers: Recent Findings
A3.3 Improved Compliance with Universal Precautions Among Operating Room and Emergency Department Personnel for Two Years following an Educational Intervention
A3.4 A Community Hospital Intervention Program to Prevent Percutaneous Injury Among Health Care Workers
Session: A4.0-Title: Monitoring Workplace Health and Safety
Category: Injury Surveillance
Moderator(s): Stephen McCurdy
A4.1 Evaluating Targeting Strategies to Identify Hazardous Employers
A4.2 Failure of Surveillance Based on OSHA Recordkeeping Rules to Detect Potentially Fatal Incidents Involving Robots
A4.3 An Eight Year Review of Construction Fatalities Without Accident Prevention Programs
A4.4 The Impact of OSHA Inspections on Injury Rates
A4.5 Fatal Occupational Injuries in a New Development Area in the People's Republic of China
A4.6 Using a Corporate Website to Monitor Health and Safety at a Large Manufacturing Company
Session: A5.0-Title: Farms and Adolescents
Category: Intervention and Evaluation
Moderator(s): Dennis J. Murphy
A5.1 Evaluation of a National Rural Youth Safety Initiative
A5.2 Etiology and Consequences of Injuries Among Children in Farm Households: Regional Rural Injury Study-II
A5.3 Farm Work Injuries to Children on Kentucky Beef Cattle Farms
A5.4 Case-Control and Case-Crossover Studies of Agriculture Related Injuries to Children and Adolescents
Session: A6.0-Title: Economics
Category: Social/Economic Impacts
Moderator(s): Thomas W. Camm
A6.1 Common Performance Measures for Canada's Occupational Safety and Health Agencies
A6.2 Earnings Loss From Occupational Injury: A Comparison of Six States
A6.3 Cost Effectiveness Methodologies Used to Evaluate the Impact of an Intervention Reducing Injuries in Fire Service
A6.4 The Incidence and Costs of Acute Injuries From a Validated Injury Surveillance System at a U.S. Manufacturing Company
A6.5 Where is it Safest to Work: Ranking States by Occupational Injury and Illness Costs Per Capita
A6.6 Years of Potential Life Lost in the National Traumatic Occupational Fatality Database
CONCURRENT SESSION: B
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Session: B1.0-Title: Special Populations at Risk: Who are They? What are Their Injury Research Needs?
Category: Special Session
Organized by the NORA Special Populations at Risk Team
Moderator(s): Sherry Baron
Organizer: Dawn Castillo
B1.1 Special Populations at Risk: Who are They? What are Their Injury Research Needs?
B1.2 Work Injuries and Age: Is the News all Bad?
B1.3 Injury and Employment Patterns Among Hispanic Construction Workers
B1.4 Workers With Disabilities
Session: B2.0-Title: New Developments With ROPS for Tractors
Category: Special Session
Organized by Dennis Murphy, Penn State University and John Etherton, NIOSH
Moderator(s): Dennis Murphy and John Etherton
B2.1 Policy Toward Increasing ROPS Use
B2.2 Probability of Death During a Farm Tractor Overturn
B2.3 Performance of the NIOSH AutoROPS
B2.4 Analyzing the Effectiveness of Composite Materials for an Automatically Deployable ROPS Application
Session: B3.0-Title: Advancing Research in the Area of Social
and Economic Consequences
Category: Special Session
Organized by the NORA Social and Economic Consequences Team
Moderator(s): Elyce Biddle
B3.1 Research Needs and Priorities for Determining the Social and Economic Consequences of Occupational Illness and Injury
B3.2 Estimating the Social Burden of Occupational Illness and Injury in the United States
B3.3 Creating an International Data Repository for Workers' Compensation Research
B3.4 A Report on the Third International Conference on Measuring the Burden of Injury
Session: B4.0-Title: Injuries in the Construction Industry I
Category: Injury Surveillance
Moderator(s): Matt Gillen
B4.1 Deaths and Injuries Caused by Falls Through Roof and Floor Openings and Surfaces, Including Skylights
B4.2 The 1990'S : Claims Management Versus Injury Management
B4.3 Struck-by Injuries to Construction Workers
B4.4 Occupational Fatalities in the U.S. Highway Construction Industry, 1992-1997
B4.5 In-depth Analyses of Falls From Heights in the Construction Industry
Session: B5.0-Title: Work Organization
Category: Intervention Evaluation
Organized by the NORA Organization of Work Team
Moderator(s): Steven Sauter and Jane Lipscomb
B5.1 A Longitudinal Study of Workplace Organizational Factors and Injury Rates
B5.2 When am I My Brother's Keeper? Defining Others' Safety and Well-Being as In-Role Versus Extra-Role Behavior
B5.3 Work Organization and Health: The CAW/McMaster Benchmarking Project
B5.4 Unintended Consequences: Organizational Practices and Their Impact on Health and Safety
B5.5 Organizational Factors and Return to Work Following Lost-Time Injury
CONCURRENT SESSION: C
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Session: C1.0-Title: Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention
Category: Special Session
Organized by David Hard, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Moderator(s): David Hard
C1.1 Overview of the NIOSH Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention Initiative
C1.2 NIOSH Approach to Childhood Agricultural Injury Surveillance
C1.3 Agricultural Disability Awareness and Risk Education (AgDARE)
C1.4 Health Professional Education to Promote Use of Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention Guidelines
C1.5 National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
Session: C2.0-Title: Prevention of Deaths and Injuries Among
Fire Fighters
Category: Special Session
Organized by the NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention
Program
Moderator(s): Richard Braddee
C2.1 Firefighter Fatality Statistics for 1999
C2.2 Fire Fatality Investigations: The NIOSH and IAFF Programs
C2.3 Overview of Program From a Volunteer Perspective
C2.4 NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program
C2.5 Hazards and Fires Involving Oxygen Regulators
C2.6 Oxygen Regulators Testing and Standards
Session: C3.0-Title: Applications of the Case-Crossover Design
in Occupational Injury Research
Category: Special Session
Organized by Gary Sorock, Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety and Health
Moderator(s): Gary Sorock
C3.1 Overview of Case-crossover Methods for Injury Research
C3.2 Animal-Related Injuries to Veterinarians: Application of the Case-Crossover Design
C3.3 Transient Risk Factors for Occupational Acute Traumatic Hand Injury
C3.4 Temporal Factors and the Risk of Occupational Acute Hand Injury
Session: C4.0-Title: Mining
Category: Injury surveillance
Moderator(s): Lisa J. Steiner
C4.1 An Analysis of Serious Injuries to Dozer Operators at US Mining Sites
C4.2 Haulage Truck Dump-Site Safety
C4.3 Evaluating Safety Interventions in the U.S. Mining Industry
C4.4 Alternate Measures of Risk for Communicating Study Results: Comparisons of Injury and Chronic Disease Mortality in the NIOSH Colorado Uranium Miners Cohort
Session: C5.0-Title: Intervention and Risk Factor Research
Category: Intervention Evaluation
Moderator(s): Linda Goldenhar
C5.1 Evidence on the Effectiveness of Measures Recommended to Prevent Workplace Homicide
C5.2 Risk Factors for Violence Among Nurses: Methods and Preliminary Results
C5.3 Workplace-Level Risk Factors for Homicide on the Job
C5.4 Interventions for the Primary Prevention of Work-Related Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Session: C6.0-Title: Engineering and Technology
Category: Engineering and Technology
Moderator(s): Karl A. Snyder
C6.1 Visual Reference Effect on Balance Control in Roof Work
C6.2 Computational Simulation of Electrical Arc Parameters
C6.3 Development of a Computerized Audit Tool for Control of Construction Falls
C6.4 Collision Warning Systems for Surface Mining Equipment
DAY TWO-WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2000
CONCURRENT SESSION: D
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Session: D1.0-Title: Tribology of Slip and Falls I
Category: Special Session
Organized by Mark Redfern, University of Pittsburgh
Moderator(s): Mark Redfern
D1.1 Field Evaluation of Two Commonly Used Slipmeters
D1.2 The Impact of Neoliter Test-Foot Variability and Tribometer Type on Slip Resistance Measurements
D1.3 The Evaluation of Two Commonly Used Slipmeters: The Repeatability and the Effect of Slip Criteria
D1.4 Precision and Bias Testing of the English XL Variable Incidence Tribometer and the Brungraber Mark II Portable Inclinable Articulated Strut Slip Tester
Session: D2.0-Title: Alaska's Model Program for Surveillance
and Prevention of Occupational Injuries
Category: Special Session
Organized by George Conway, National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health
Moderator(s): George Conway
D2.1 Alaska's Model Program for Surveillance and Prevention of Occupational Injury Deaths
D2.2 Preventing Fatalities and Severe Non-fatal Injuries in Alaska's Commercial Fishing Industry
D2.3 Pilot Inexperience May Increase the Hazards in Alaska, 1990-1998
D2.4 Partnerships for Surveillance and Prevention of Occupational Aviation Injuries in Alaska
D2.5 Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation in Alaska
D2.6 Surveillance and Prevention of Nonfatal Work-Related Injuries in Alaska
Session: D3.0-Title: Challenges in Assessing Exposure to
Occupational Injury Hazards
Category: Special Session
Organized by Dana Loomis, Department of Epidemiology, University of North
Carolina
Moderator(s): Dana Loomis
D3.1 Dealing With Variability of Hazards in Occupational Injury Epidemiology
D3.2 Variability, Measurement, and Analysis of Hours of Exposure in a Cohort of Fishers
D3.3 Measuring Transient Occupational Injury Exposures
Session: D4.0-Title: Fire Fighter Safety
Category: Injury Surveillance
Moderator(s): Thomas P. Mezzanote
D4.1 Traumatic Occupational Injury Fatalities to Fire Service Personnel, 1992-1998
D4.2 The Relation Between Age & Duty-Related Injuries in Urban Fire Fighters I
D4.3 A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Duty Related Injuries in Urban Fire Fighters
D4.4 Fire Fighter Fatality Reports and Their Importance to the Volunteer Fire Service
Session: D5.0-Title: Construction
Category: Intervention Evaluation
Moderator(s): Robert Chapman
D5.1 Fall-Safe Intervention and Research
D5.2 Differences in Injury Intervention Implementation Among Small Union Carpentry Firms in New England
D5.3 A Controlled Prospective Injury Intervention for Small Union Carpentry Firms in New England
D5.4 Worker and Manager Perceptions of Construction Safety Practices
Session: D6.0-Title: Special Populations
Category: Special Populations
Moderator(s): Letitia Davis
D6.1 The Prevalence and Patterns of Occupational Injury in South Texas Middle School Students
D6.2 The Prevalence and Risk Factors Related to Falls During Pregnancy
D6.3 Fatal Occupational Injuries Among Hispanic Workers of Texas
D6.4 Reducing Injury Risk of Students in Vocational-technical Schools and Young Workers in Small Businesses
D6.5 A Report on Young Teens Experience With Occupational Health and Safety Issues: A Pilot Study
D6.6 Latino Immigrant Workers in Residential Construction: A Qualitative Study of Risk Factors
CONCURRENT SESSION: E
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Session: E1.0-Title: Tribology of Slip and Falls II
Category: Special Session
Organized by Wen-Ruey Chang, Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety and
Health
Moderator(s): Wen-Ruey Chang
E1.1 The Contribution of Dry Contaminants to Slip Potential
E1.2 Comparison of Coefficient of Friction Requirements During Gait to Tribometry Measurements: Evaluation of Shod and Barefoot Conditions at Various Walking Speeds
E1.3 Measuring the Exposure to Slipping Hazards: A Novel Test Device
E1.4 Validating Slipmeters: Aspects of Conformity Between Test Feet and Floor Surfaces
Session: E2.0-Title: Surveillance and Intervention Programs
Targeting Injuries in the Construction Industry
Category: Special Session
Organized by T. J. Lentz, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Moderator(s): T. J. Lentz
E2.1 Survey Shows Commitment to Safety by Large Construction Firms Produces Results
E2.2 Evaluation of the OSHA Construction Accident Reduction Emphasis (CARE) Program in Florida
E2.3 Fall Protection Emphasis Within OSHA's Region V
E2.4 An Unconventional Surveillance Tool for Tracking Construction Projects in the State of Illinois
Session: E3.0-Title: Young Worker Injuries: Innovative
Interventions and Evaluation Challenges
Category: Special Session
Organized by the NORA Special Populations at Risk and Intervention Effectiveness
Research Teams
Moderator(s): Dawn Castillo
E3.1 Injuries to Young Workers: An Overview
E3.2 Expanded Opportunities for Prevention of Young Worker Injuries
E3.3 Coordinated State Efforts to Prevent Young Worker Injuries
E3.4 Community-Based Efforts to Prevent Young Worker Injuries in an Ethnic Community
E3.5 School-based Efforts to Prevent Young Worker Injuries
Session: E4.0-Title: Fatality Assessment and Control
Evaluation (FACE)
Category: Injury Surveillance
Moderator(s): William Hetzler
E4.1 Identification and Evaluation of Injury Circumstances Contributing to Crane-related Occupational Fatality
E4.2 Work-related Fatalities in West Virginia: A Summary of Surveillance, Investigation, and Prevention Activities - July 1996 Through December 1999
E4.3 Functional Limitations Leading to Fatal Work Injuries of Farmers in Wisconsin
E4.4 The Washington State Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program: High Risk Populations
Session: E5.0-Title: Injury Risk Factors
Category: Injury Risk Factors
Moderator(s): Christine Branche
E5.1 Race Modifies Other Risk Factors for Knee-related Disability Among Women in the U.S. Army
E5.2 Toward a Typology of Dynamic and Hazardous Work Environments
E5.3 Indicators of Lift Readiness and Lift Posture in Patients With Low Back Pain
E5.4 Fatal and Nonfatal Injuries Among Public Sector Employees
E5.5 Nonfatal Occupational Injuries Among African-American Women by Industry
E5.6 Occupational Fatalities Among Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Providers in the US: A Comprehensive Review of the 1992 to 1997 Data From CFOI, FARS and the National EMS Memorial Service
Session: E6.0-Title: Social/Economic Impacts II
Category: Social/Economic Impacts II
Moderator(s): Elyce A. Biddle
E6.1 The Economic and Social Consequences of Injury at Sand and Gravel Operations
E6.2 Earnings Losses From Permanent Disability at Private Self-Insured Employers in California
E6.3 The Cost and Consequences of Work-Related Assaults
E6.4 Followup Study of Musculoskeletal Injuries Among Construction Workers
E6.5 Detection, Disease Management, and Compensation: Health and Economic Outcomes of Occupational Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Among Garment Workers in New York City
E6.6 The Concentration of Workers' Compensation Expenditures in a Construction Workforce: Implications for Cost Containment
CONCURRENT SESSION: F
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Session: F1.0-Title: Biomechanics of Slips and Falls
Category: Special Session
Organized by Raoul Gronqvist, Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety and
Health
Moderator(s): Raoul Gronqvist
F1.1 Adjustments in Gait Biomechanics on Potentially Slippery Floors
F1.2 Safety on Stairs: Biomechanical and Visual Factors
F1.3 Slip Potentials During Load Carrying
F1.4 Method of Expressing Slipperiness in Gait
Session: F2.0-Title: Workplace Violence Research: Past,
Present and Future
Category: Special Session
Organized by Lynn Jenkins, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Moderator(s): Lynn Jenkins
F2.1 History and Status of NIOSH Research on Workplace Violence
F2.2 Evaluation of Risk Factors for Robbery and Employee Injury and Compliance to a Workplace Violence Intervention in High-Risk Business Settings
F2.3 Evaluation of OSHA Guidelines on Preventing Violence in Mental Health Settings
F2.4 Workplace Violence Intervention Research: An Agenda for Action
Session: F4.0-Title: Needlestick/Eye Injuries
Category: Injury Surveillance
Moderator(s): Thomas K. Hodous
F4.1 Injuries and Illnesses in Nurses in Delhi
F4.2 Sharps-Related Injuries in California Healthcare Facilities: Preliminary Results From the Sharps Injury Registry
F4.3 Characterization of Needlestick Injuries and Development of Prevention Strategies
F4.4 Does Occupational Exposure Account for Excess Injury Risk: Serious Eye Injuries in the U.S. Army
Session: F5.0-Title: Methods and Results
Category: Safety Communications and Training
Moderator(s): Paul A. Schulte
F5.1 Using the Extended Parallel Process Model to Develop and Evaluate Silicosis Prevention Materials for Masonry Workers and Contractors
F5.2 Expert Systems for Communication in Occupational Safety and Health
F5.3 Key Learnings From Electrical Safety Workshops Sponsored by IEEE 1992-2000
F5.4 Agricultural Commodity Based Safety Programming: Using Florida Citrus as a Model
F5.5 Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Tailored Website for Construction Safety and Health
Session: F6.0-Title: Injuries in the Construction Industry II
Category: Special Populations: Construction
Moderator(s): David E. Fosbroke
F6.1 Contractor Safety Practices and Injury Rates During Construction of Denver International Airport
F6.2 Analysis of Construction Injury Burden by Type of Work
F6.3 Work-related Falls in Residential and Drywall Carpentry
F6.4 Nail Gun Injuries in Construction: Need for Gun Control?
F6.5 Eye Injuries at a Large Construction Project: A Better Understanding Through Compensation Data and Injury Investigations
CONCURRENT SESSION: G
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Session: G1.0-Title: The NIOSH Fatality Assessment and Control
Evaluation Project's Role in the Reduction of Occupational Fatalities
Category: Special Session
Organized by Virgil Casini, NIOSH FACE Team
Moderator(s): Paul Moore
G1.1 Overview of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
G1.2 New Jersey FACE Investigation Leads to Legislative Changes
G1.3 Youth Farm Worker is Killed in PTO Driveline Entanglement
G1.4 The NIOSH, OSHA, NATE Partnership for the Prevention of Injury to Telecommunication Tower Construction and Maintenance Workers
G1.5 Dissemination of Products From the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
Session: G2.0-Title: Work-Related Burn and Amputation
Surveillance: A Snapshot in Time of the Surveillance Results of Colorado,
Kentucky, Utah and Minnesota
Category: Special Session
Organized by the Traumatic Injury SENSOR State grantees
Moderator(s): Wayne Ball
G2.1 Experience of Kentucky SENSOR Occupational Burn Surveillance
G2.2 Work-Related Burn Surveillance Program in Utah
G2.3 Work-Related Burn Surveillance in Colorado: 1989 - 1997
G2.4 Amputation Surveillance in Minnesota
Session: G3.0-Title: From Virtual Reality to Reality
Category: Special Session
Organized by Hongwei Hsiao, National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health
Moderator(s): Hongwei Hsiao
G3.1 Virtual Reality for Safe Equipment Operation
G3.2 Employing Virtual Reality Simulations of Agricultural Tractor Operation for Assessing Safe Behavior Among Youth - A Feasibility Study
G3.3 Safe Work at Elevation Through Virtual Reality Simulation
G3.4 Driving Safety and Simulation Technology
G3.5 Fire Dynamics Simulator
Session: G4.0-Title: Selected Workplaces
Category: Injury Surveillance and
Intervention Evaluation
Moderator(s): Anne-Marie Feyer
G4.1 Fatal Occupational Injuries in the U.S. Rail Transportation Industry
G4.2 Transportation Incidents - the 500 Pound Gorilla of Occupational Injuries
G4.3 Impact of a Design Modification in Modern Firefighting Uniforms on Burn Prevention Outcomes in New York City Firefighters
G4.4 The Impact of Protective Hoods and Their Water Content on Firefighter Burn Injuries: Laboratory Tests and Field Results
Session: G5.0-Title: Simulation Exercises
Category: Safety Communications and
Training
Organized by Henry P. Cole, University of Kentucky
Moderator(s): Ted Scharf and Mike Colligan
G5.2 Simulation Exercises to Prevent Occupational Exposure to Blood and Other Body Fluids
G5.3 Using a Narrative Simulation Exercise for Training Motorists to Avoid Collisions With Farm Machinery on Public Roads
G5.4 The Use and Impact of Narrative Simulations in the US Coal Industry
G5.5 Using Case-based Interactive Narrative Simulation Exercises to Prevent Occupational Injuries
POSTER SOCIAL
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
PS.01 The Economic Impact of Occupational Fatalities, a Retrospective Study (1995-1998)
PS.02 Measuring the Economic Burden of Occupational Fatal Injuries in the United States, 1990-1995
PS.03 The Practicality of Using Fault Tree Analysis to Improve Mine Safety
PS.04 The Economic and Social Impact of Work-Related Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
PS.05 Integrating Injury Research With Industry Experience to Develop Measures for Preventing Worker Injuries From Vehicles and Equipment in Highway Work Zones 66
PS.06 Pilot Study of Transient Risk Factors for Sharps-Related Injuries in Health Care Workers
PS.07 Impact of a Changing U.S. Workforce on the Occupational Injury Experience, 1980-1994
PS.08 Five Workers Engulfed & Suffocated in Corn in Nebraska, 1999
PS.09 Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program: Recommendations for Preventing Injuries and Deaths of Workers Who Operate or Work Near Forklifts
PS.10 Eye Injury Prevention Among Mechanical Contractors
PS.11 Work-related Acute Eye Injuries Presenting to the West Virginia University Hospital Emergency Department
PS.12 Occupational Homicide and Non-facility Based Workers
PS.14 Perceived Postural Sway and Discomfort During Simulated Drywall Lifting and Hanging Tasks
PS.15 Causes of Electrocutions Among Construction Workers
PS.16 An Analysis of Falls by Construction Type Among Construction Workers
PS.17 Work-related Injury Among California Migrant Hispanic Farm Workers
PS.18 Do Complaints Take OSHA to Less Risky Workplaces?
PS.19 Occupational Fatalities Associated With Harvesting and Handling Large Bales-United States, 1980-1998, Minnesota FACE, 1993-1999, Oklahoma FACE, 1995-1999
PS.20 Injury Surveillance Using Existing Workers' Compensation Medical Claims Data
PS.21 ICD-9-CM vs. ICD-10 for Coding Occupational Fatalities: Is ICD-10 Better, Worse, or Just Different?
PS.22 Fatal Incidents Involving Farm Equipment on Public Roadways
PS.23 A Cost Model for Traumatic Injuries in Mining
PS.24 Experiences of Widows Following a Farm-related Fatality
PS.25 Injuries Relating to Tobacco Farming in Kentucky
PS.26 California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE): Summary of Occupational Fatalities in Los Angeles County 1992-1998
PS.27 Epidemiology of Occupational Injury Among Cooks
DAY THREE-THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2000
CONCURRENT SESSION: H
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Session: H1.0-Title: Vehicle-Related Transportation Fatalities
in the Workplace: Research and Prevention Strategies
Category: Special Session
Organized by Stephanie Pratt, National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health
Moderator(s): Roger Rosa
H1.1 Occupational Pedestrian-Vehicle Collision Fatalities in the United States, 1992-1997
H1.2 The Association of Age and Occupational Motor Vehicle-Related Fatalities
H1.3 Occupational Highway Fatalities Involving Semi-Trucks, United States, 1992-1997
H1.4 Traffic Crashes and Productivity Losses: What the Research Shows
Session: H2.0-Title: Training Intervention Effectiveness
Research (TIER)
Category: Special Session
Organized by Greg Loos, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Moderator(s): Greg Loos
H2.1 Overview of the TIER Model
H2.2 Relationship of TIER to Injury Control
H2.3 Electrical Safety Training
H2.4 Future TIER Studies
Session: H3.0-Title: Cross-cutting Mining Research for Injury
Prevention in Other Industries
Category: Special Session
Organized by Jeffrey Welsh, National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health
Moderator(s): Jeffrey Welsh
H3.2 Safety Issues in Blasting
H3.3 Identifying Fatal and Non-fatal Injuries Attributed to Water Well Drilling Operations
H3.4 Protecting Workers From Electrocution Caused by Contact of Cranes, Haul Trucks and Drill Rigs With Overhead Power Lines: A New Approach
H3.5 Development of the Hazard Recognition Training Module for Construction, Maintenance, and Repair Work Activities
Session: H4.0-Title: Traumatic Injury Studies
Category: Injury Surveillance
Moderator(s): Letitia Davis
H4.1 National Estimates of Traumatic Occupational Injury in the United States
H4.2 Surveillance for Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments-United States, 1998
H4.3 Exposing U.S. Disabling Morbidity - The BLS Data Revisited
H4.4 Safety Impacts of Peer-to-Peer Workplace Substance Abuse Prevention
H4.5 Mortality Patterns at a Large U.S. Manufacturing Company From 1974 Through 1998
H4.6 Traumatic Work-Related Fatal Injury Amongst Maori of New Zealand 1985-1994
Session: H5.0-Title: International Comparison
Category: Other Topics
Moderator(s): Gordon Smith
H5.1 A Comparison of Work-Related Fatal Injuries to Agricultural Workers in Australia, New Zealand and the United States
H5.2 Comparing the Causes of Work-Related Fatal Injuries in Australia, New Zealand and the United States Using Narrative Information
H5.4 Older Workers: A Comparison of Work-related Fatal Injuries in Australia, New Zealand, and the US
H5.5 Occupational Injury Mortality Rates: Comparison of New Zealand, Australia and the United States
Session: H6.0-Title: State Experience
Category: Other Topics
Moderator(s): James C. Helmkamp
H6.1 The Epidemiology of Serious Occupational Burn Injuries in Alabama
H6.2 Epidemiology of Work-related Burn Injuries: Experience of a State Managed Workers Compensation System
H6.3 Incidence and Risk of Work-related Fracture Injuries: Experience of a State Managed Workers Compensation System
H6.4 Work-Related Traumatic Head and Brain Injuries in Washington State, 1990-1997
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