Occupational injury causes

Occupational illness Any abnormal condition or disorder, other than one resulting from an occupational injury, caused by exposure to environmental factors associated with employment. It includes acute and chronic illnesses or diseases that may be caused by inhalation, absorption, ingestion, or direct contact. 

It is not immediately obvious how, or indeed if, employers differ from the average citizen in their attribution of occupational injury causes and thus would be susceptible to incentives for prevention. Nor is it clear how incentives for prevention would influence investments in safety within the industrial sectors where high physical risks are viewed as normal and technologically determined, or part of the specific sub-culture of hazardous occupational exposure (e.g. forestry, agriculture, fishing, construction, etc). 

There is no evidence that inhalation exposures in occupational settings cause the rapid progressive pulmonary fibrosis and injury to the heart, liver, and kidneys that occur after ingestion. Because of the low vapor pressure, there is little inhalation hazard. Spray droplets are usually too large to reach the alveoli. If exposure is excessive, droplets may be inhaled into the upper respiratory tract and cause nosebleed, sore throat, headache, and coughing from local irritant action. Rarely, dermal exposure to paraquat has resulted in systemic poisonings and deaths with renal and pulmonary... 

Of 1,720 persons with occupational bum injuries in the US State of North Carolina, the most common event was exposure to corrosive substances [18]. Of bum injury patients from all causes, 361 patients (69.6%) also had eye bums [18]. Ocular bums comprise about 7-18% of ocular trauma presenting to emergency departments in the USA and eye injuries account for about 3 % of total occupational injuries [6]. Most of these (approximately 84%) are chemical bums. About 15-20% of patients with facial bums also have ocular bums. The ratio of acid/alkali chemical ocular bums is 1 1-1 4 [6]. 

An International Labour Organization report of 1996 draws attention to dangers in the agricultural sector, where 14% of all known occupational injuries and 10% of all fatal injuries are caused by pesticides. 

Organ-specific occupational toxidromes. A list of Ten Leading Causes of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses has been published by the National Institute tor Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). This list, organized generally by organ system, is included in Table IV-2, along with additional disorders not on the original NIOSH list. 

The THIS program is specifically designed to permit the Philips Lighting Company (Danville facility see Figure A3.1) to focus all employees attention on the top three safety and health hazards that are the root cause of the vast majority of their occupational injuries and illnesses. The three identified or targeted hazards for the initial training are... 

Occupational fatahties and injuries caused by electricity pose a serious pubhc problem and in occupational accidents of the Netherlands. Contact with electricity constitutes 1.5% of the reported 12500 accidents, which have occurred in the Netherlands between 1998 and 2004, while the number of deaths, permanent and recoverable injuries is on the average 30 per year. 

Any situation, process, materiaL or condition that, on the basis of applicable data, can cause a fire or explosion or provide a ready fuel supply to augment the spread or intensity of a fire or explosion and that poses a threat to life, property, continued business operation, or the enviromnent. The relative degree of hazard can be evaluated and appropriate safeguards provided. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Charts, 1992-2007, fires and explosions accounted for 3 percent of workplace fatalities in 2007. See also Fire Safety, Workplace. 

Violence in the workplace is a serious safety and health issue. Its most extreme form, homicide, is the fourth-leading cause of fatal occupational injury in the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), there were 564 workplace homicides in 2005 in the United States, out of a total of 5702 fatal work injuries. See also Going Postal. 

Contact between large construction equipment and overhead lines is a major cause of fatal occupational injuries in the United States. All overhead lines must be considered to be energized unless and until the person owning the line, or the electrical utility authorities, indicate it is not an energized line, and it is visibly grovmded and appropriately marked. The OSHA rules have specific requirements for safe use of equipment close to overhead lines. 

What is the leading cause of occupational injuries and work-related deaths ... 

Liver Although chloroform is no longer in use as a volatile anesthetic agent, cases of occupational exposure as well as intentional inhalation and ingestion still present to clinicians. Chloroform was withdrawn from clinical use because it can cause nervous system depression, anoxia secondary to respiratory depression and airway obstruction, cardiac dysrhythmias potentiated by circulating catecholamines, and hepato-toxicity, which is thought to be secondary to oxidative injury caused by free radicals. 

Mathias CGT (1983) Persistent contact dermatitis from the insecticide dichlorvos. Contact Dermatitis 9 217-218 Mathias CGT (1989) Epidemiology of occupational skin disease in agriculture. In Dosman JA, Cockroft DV/ (eds) Principles of health and safety in agriculture. CRC, Boca Raton, pp 285-287 Mathias CGT, Morrison JH (1988) Occupational skin diseases. United States. Results from the bureau of labor statistics annual survey of occupational injuries and illnesses, 1973 through 1984. Arch Dermatol 124 1519-1524 Matsushita T, Arimatsu Y, Nomura S (1976 Experimental study on contact dermatitis caused by dithiocarbamates maneb, mancozeb, zineb, and their related compounds. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 37 169-178 Matsushita T, Yoshioka M, Aoyama K, Arimatsu Y, Nomura S (1977) Experimental study on contact dermatitis caused by Wgicides benomyl and thiophanate methyl. Ind Health... 

As part of the tracking process, a company must comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration s (OSHA s) recordkeeping requiranents for occupational injuries and illnesses. Any occupational illness that has resulted in an abnormal condition or disorder caused by exposure to environmental factors, which may be acute or chronic due to inhalation, absorption, ingestion or direct contact with toxic substances or harmful agents, and any repetitive motion injury is to be classified as an illness. All illnesses are recordable, regardless of severity. Injuries are recordable when... 

Some form of material handling transpires in almost all workplaces. Material handling is one of the leading causes of occupational injuries, whether it is manual lifting or the use of lifting equipment. Great care must be taken to ensure safe clearance... 

It takes a concerted effort to address the safety and health issues that are causing your occupational injuries and illnesses. This certainly means that many of you will need to try out the accident/incident techniques that you have not used previously, or at least try that with which you have had no familiarity. This means that you may have to develop new programs, implement new ways of addressing people issues, change your approach to safety and health, or admit that you need help with your safety and health initiative. Then get the help you need. 

Various types of benefits are available under the State insurance schemes for industrial injuries and are payable in respect of any person who has suffered personal injury caused by an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment or where such person suffers from what is termed a prescribed disease with reference to certain industrial occupations which may give rise to that particular disease. The phrases accident and arising... 

Reporting. In addition to other medical events that are required to be reported on the OSHA Form No. 200, the employer shall report any abnormal condition or disorder caused by occupational exposure to cadmium associated with employment as specified in Chapter (V)(E) of the Reporting Guidelines for Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. 

Workplace violence is any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at the work site. It ranges from threats and verbal abuse to physical assaults and even homicide. It can affect and involve employees, clients, customers and visitors. Homicide is currently the fourth-leading cause of fatal occupational injuries in the United States. 

FRI 3 (low risk) There is a low probability that hazards in this facility can cause loss of life. Hazards may result in hospitalization of one or two persons, occupational injury or illness resulting in a lost workday or... 

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