Trends in fatal occupational injuries and industrial restructuring in North Carolina in the 1980s

Bibliographic Data

ID11023539
AuthorsD Richardson (0000-0002-6255-2316), David B Richardson (0000-0002-6481-8851, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Dana Loomis (0000-0003-3297-5200)
Year1997
Volume87
Issue6
Pages1041-1043
Publication date1997-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.87.6.1041
PMID9224194
OpenAlexW2046684727
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

OBJECTIVES: This study examined the relationship between changes in employment in North Carolina in the 1980s and fatal occupational injury rates. METHODS: Unintentional fatal occupational injuries (n = 1989) in North Carolina between 1978 and 1991 were identified via the medical examiner's system. RESULTS: Overall fatal injury rates declined during the 1980s, but rates increased 9.6% per year among manufacturing industries that declined in employment size; rates fell among service sector and manufacturing industries that grew. CONCLUSIONS: Increasing occupational fatal injury rates accompanied the decline in workforce in North Carolina's traditional, labor-intensive manufacturing industries during the 1980s, while service sector and expanding manufacturing industries have experienced declining fatal injury rates

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Injury prevention · Occupational injury · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Restructuring · Tertiary sector of the economy · Workforce · Agriculture and Farm Safety · Demography · Finance · Medicine · Occupational Health and Safety Research · Traffic and Road Safety

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