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  • SHARP Stats: Temporary Worker Injury Claims, 2016-2021

    Workers’ Compensation Claim Rates: Temporary vs. Permanent Workers Washington State Workers’ Compensation System 2016-2021
    Washington — Other — 11/13/2023 — 4 Views

  • Compliance inspections following severe amputation

    Limited resources prevent enforcement agencies from inspecting all worksites that experience a workplace injury, creating a need to prioritize compliance inspection activity. Workers’ compensation data are a valuable source of occupational injury data that can augment employer reporting and help target workplace safety inspections, including those conducted by Washington’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH). More »
    Washington — Technical Report — 10/16/2023 — 4 Views

  • Occupational toxic inhalation of carbon monoxide among Washington workers, 2017 – 2022

    Carbon monoxide (CO) is a well-known and common workplace hazard, particularly in the agriculture and construction industries [1,2]. Two previous analyses of occupational CO exposure in Washington showed that propane-powered forklifts in agricultural cold storage warehouses were a predominant source of CO poisoning for the period 1994-2005 [1,2]. More »
    Washington — Technical Report — 9/21/2023 — 16 Views

  • Pierna de trabajador queda atrapada en cinta transportadora sobrecargada

    Una tarde a finales del verano, un joven trabajador estaba vigilando el vaciado de una carga de papas de un semirremolque a una cinta transportadora elevadora móvil en una planta de procesamiento de papas. Llevaba dos meses trabajando en la planta. El conductor del camión solía pararse en la parte trasera del vehículo mientras cargaban las papas en la cinta transportadora, pero ese día caminó de un lado del vehículo al otro, desde donde ya no podía ver al trabajador.
    Washington — Case Report — 8/30/2023 — 4 Views

  • Research Findings: Heat-Related Illness and Ambient Temperature Trends

    Occupational heat-related illness in Washington State: A descriptive study of day of illness and prior day ambient temperatures among cases and clusters, 2006-2021
    Washington — Other — 8/7/2023 — 4 Views

  • Worker Hospitalization Alert: Worker’s Leg Caught In Overloaded Conveyor

    One late summer afternoon, a young worker was monitoring a load of potatoes being emptied from a semi-truck onto a mobile elevator conveyor at a potato processing plant. He had been working at the plant for about two months. The truck driver usually stood at the back of the truck as the potatoes were loaded onto the conveyor, but on this day he walked around to the other side of his truck, where he could no longer see the worker.
    Washington — Case Report — 8/4/2023 — 4 Views

  • SHARP Stats: Wood Products Manufacturing Hospitalizations

    Hospitalized Injury Risk High in Wood Products Manufacturing WA Work-Related Immediate Inpatient Hospitalization Surveillance System, 2014–2021
    Washington — Other — 8/2/2023 — 16 Views

  • DOSH Compliance Effectiveness in Washington State, 2020-2021

    DOSH Compliance Effectiveness in Washington State, 2020-2021
    Washington — Technical Report — 7/25/2023 — 17 Views

  • SHARP Stats: Work-Related Amputation Rates

    Industry sectors and subsectors with the highest amputation rates Washington workers’ compensation compensable claims, 2016–2021
    Washington — Other — 5/25/2023 — 4 Views

  • SHARP Stats: Work-Related Amputation Sources

    Leading sources of amputation by industry sector Washington workers’ compensation compensable claims, 2016–2021
    Washington — Other — 5/25/2023 — 4 Views
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