Accidents, Occupational

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Safety is everyone's job:" the key to safety on a large university construction site. 
  • A case crossover study of triggers for hand injuries in commercial fishing. 
  • A counterview on data quality and the systematic review process for occupational injury interventions: are we missing the forest for the trees? 
  • A lift assist team in an acute care hospital-prevention of injury or transfer of risk during patient-handling tasks? 
  • An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: Chemical Inhalational Disasters. Biology of Lung Injury, Development of Novel Therapeutics, and Medical Preparedness. 
  • Analysis of text from injury reports improves understanding of construction falls. 
  • Associations between safety climate and safety management practices in the construction industry. 
  • Back injuries among union carpenters in Washington State, 1989-2003. 
  • Challenges in residential fall prevention: insight from apprentice carpenters. 
  • Changes in fall prevention training for apprentice carpenters based on a comprehensive needs assessment. 
  • Continued progress in the prevention of nail gun injuries among apprentice carpenters: what will it take to see wider spread injury reductions? 
  • Contribution of health status and prevalent chronic disease to individual risk for workplace injury in the manufacturing environment. 
  • Costs by industry and diagnosis among musculoskeletal claims in a state workers compensation system: 1999-2004. 
  • Deaths from external causes of injury among construction workers in North Carolina, 1988-1994. 
  • Demographics and replantation. 
  • Development of the St. Louis audit of fall risks at residential construction sites. 
  • Direct costs and patterns of injuries among residential carpenters, 1995-2000. 
  • Effectiveness of interventions to prevent work-related eye injuries. 
  • Endoscopic repair of a hypopharyngeal laceration in a professional sword-swallower. 
  • Evaluation of direct workers' compensation costs for musculoskeletal injuries surrounding interventions to reduce patient lifting. 
  • Evaluation of the North Country on the Job Network: a model of facilitated care for injured workers in rural upstate New York. 
  • Factors contributing to construction injury at Denver International Airport. 
  • Fall hazard control observed on residential construction sites. 
  • Fall prevention among apprentice carpenters. 
  • Fall prevention and safety communication training for foremen: report of a pilot project designed to improve residential construction safety. 
  • Falls among union carpenters. 
  • Falls in residential carpentry and drywall installation: findings from active injury surveillance with union carpenters. 
  • Hand transplantation in the United States: experience with 3 patients. 
  • Health care utilization for musculoskeletal back disorders, Washington State union carpenters, 1989-2003. 
  • How much time is safety worth? A comparison of trigger configurations on pneumatic nail guns in residential framing. 
  • How well are we controlling falls from height in construction? Experiences of union carpenters in Washington State, 1989-2008. 
  • Implementation and adoption of mechanical patient lift equipment in the hospital setting: The importance of organizational and cultural factors. 
  • Incident and recurrent back injuries among union carpenters. 
  • Informal social status among coworkers and risk of work-related injury among nurse aides in long-term care. 
  • Injuries among teens employed in the homebuilding industry in North Carolina. 
  • Job characteristics and work organization factors associated with patient-handling injury among nursing personnel. 
  • Mental, emotional factors contribute to job safety. 
  • Methods for using narrative text from injury reports to identify factors contributing to construction injury. 
  • Microvascular management of ring avulsion injuries. 
  • Musculoskeletal injuries resulting from patient handling tasks among hospital workers. 
  • Nail gun injuries among construction workers. 
  • Nail gun injuries in apprentice carpenters: risk factors and control measures. 
  • Nail gun injuries in residential carpentry: lessons from active injury surveillance. 
  • Nail-gun injuries treated in emergency departments--United States, 2001-2005. 
  • Needlestick injuries among surgeons in training. 
  • New standards for safe patient handling and mobility. 
  • Non-fatal construction industry fall-related injuries treated in US emergency departments, 1998-2005. 
  • Non-fatal contact injuries among workers in the construction industry treated in U.S. emergency departments, 1998-2005. 
  • Nonfatal construction industry-related injuries treated in hospital emergency departments in the United States, 1998-2005. 
  • Nonfatal tool- or equipment-related injuries treated in US emergency departments among workers in the construction industry, 1998-2005. 
  • Objective measures of adoption of patient lift and transfer devices to reduce nursing staff injuries in the hospital setting. 
  • Occupational impairment and disability among applicants for Social Security disability benefits in Pennsylvania. 
  • Occupational injuries among aides and nurses in acute care. 
  • Prevention of traumatic nail gun injuries in apprentice carpenters: use of population-based measures to monitor intervention effectiveness. 
  • Prospective study of incident injuries among southeastern United States commercial fishermen. 
  • Rates of and circumstances surrounding work-related falls from height among union drywall carpenters in Washington State, 1989-2008. 
  • Refining the focus of construction injury surveillance. 
  • Risk of infection of health-care workers by human immunodeficiency virus. 
  • Safety, incentives, and the reporting of work-related injuries among union carpenters: "you're pretty much screwed if you get hurt at work". 
  • Socioeconomic disparities in the prevalence of work-related injuries among adolescents in the United States. 
  • Surveillance of musculoskeletal injuries and disorders in a diverse cohort of workers at a tertiary care medical center. 
  • Surveillance of nail gun injuries by journeymen carpenters provides important insight into experiences of apprentices. 
  • Systematic reviews of workplace injury interventions: what are we missing? 
  • The North Country on the Job Network: a unique role for occupational health nurses in a community coalition. 
  • The diversity of wound presentation associated with freon contact frostbite injury. 
  • The epidemiology of ocular trauma in Singapore: perspective from the emergency service of a large tertiary hospital. 
  • The importance of observational methods for evaluation of interventions to prevent occupational injuries. 
  • Three perspectives on work-related injury surveillance systems. 
  • Twenty years of workers' compensation costs due to falls from height among union carpenters, Washington state. 
  • Ulnar Nerve Transection in an Orthopaedic Surgeon Sustained During Surgery: A Case Report and Commentary. 
  • Understanding non-industrialized workers' approaches to safety: how do commercial fishermen "stay safe"? 
  • Work related injuries in small scale commercial fishing. 
  • Work-related falls among union carpenters in Washington State before and after the Vertical Fall Arrest Standard. 
  • Work-related injuries among union drywall carpenters in Washington State, 1989-2008. 
  • [Near-total ear amputation: anatomical bases and management]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine