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Ready mixed concrete truck drivers: work-related hazards and recommendations for controls.

Authors
Clark N; Dropkin J; Kaplan L
Source
Washington, DC: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2001 Sep; :1-22
NIOSHTIC No.
20028301
Abstract
The Center to Protect Workers' Rights contracted with the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York City, to conduct a hazard assessment of truck drivers in the ready mixed concrete industry. The project was to include the following: 1. Review, analysis, and interpretation of OSHA Log 200 and inspection data and literature supplied by the Teamsters and the Center to Protect Workers' Rights. 2. Development of a job description for ready mixed concrete truck drivers and a qualitative hazard assessment based on site observations and literature review. 3. A final report containing summary information on identified work-related hazards, OSHA Log 200 data, and recommendations for hazard abatement and areas for further study. Because the data sources for this analysis are not a representative statistical sample for the ready mixed industry, the findings here do not necessarily exactly reflect the hazards in the industry; for instance, the types of injuries might occur in a different order than shown here if all injuries were counted. However, the data presented show the main safety and health problems encountered by the drivers.
Keywords
Construction-workers; Cement-industry; Truck-drivers; Ergonomics; Injury-prevention; Accident-prevention; Accident-rates; Accident-statistics; Traumatic-injuries; Noise; Drivers; Silica-dusts; Eye-injuries; Confined-spaces
Contact
The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, Suite 1000, 8484 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Publication Date
20010901
Document Type
Other
Funding Amount
1670902
Funding Type
Cooperative Agreement; Construction
Fiscal Year
2001
Identifying No.
Cooperative-Agreement-Number-U02-CCU-310982
Priority Area
Construction
Source Name
Ready mixed concrete truck drivers: work-related hazards and recommendations for controls
State
DC; MD
Performing Organization
Center to Protect Workers' Rights
Page last reviewed: May 11, 2023
Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Information Division