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Worker Health Chartbook, 2004

The Worker Health Chartbook, 2004 (PDF, 8.4 MB, DHHS (NIOSH), Publication No. 2004-146) is intended as a resource for technical and nontechnical audiences, including agencies, organizations, employers, researchers, workers, and others with a need to know about occupational injury, illness, and death. The Chartbook includes more than 400 figures and tables focusing on worker health and the injury and illness statistics that measure the health of workers. Contributors include Federal and State agencies as well as nonprofit organizations.

Chapter 4 focuses on the high-risk occupations in the mining and construction industries.