TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Occupational fatal injuries associated with mobile hand-fed wood chippers
JO  - American journal of industrial medicine
A1  - Zhu, Julia
A1  - Gelberg, Kitty
SP  - 978
EP  - 985
VL  - 61
IS  - 12
N2  - BACKGROUND: Workers are killed every year in wood chipper-related incidents despite the repeated hazard warnings. In-depth, comprehensive, and up-to-date studies are needed to identify causal, risk, and contributing factors and assess the current control measures so that an effective and proactive prevention approach can be developed. <br><br>METHODS: Cases were identified from four online databases and manually reviewed to characterize and categorize the fatal events. <br><br>RESULTS: The study identified 113 wood chipper-related worker deaths (1982-2016). The victims were killed in struck-by (57), caught-in (41), motor vehicle (7), electrical (4), fall (2), and heat stroke (2) incidents while performing chipper-related tasks. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Chipper-related worker deaths are preventable. Young and inexperienced workers may be at higher risk for caught-in deaths. The current feed wheel control devices are not effective for workers to self-rescue. Fully automatic feed wheel stop devices are needed to prevent caught-in incidents.<br><br>© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0271-3586
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22913
ID  - ref1
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