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Biomechanical Evaluation Of A Jackhammering Task With And Without List Assist, Blake Allen Johnson
Biomechanical Evaluation Of A Jackhammering Task With And Without List Assist, Blake Allen Johnson
Theses and Dissertations
The construction and utility industries have relatively high levels of hazardous tasks that impose high physical demands on a worker. For the past decade these industry sectors had one of highest incident rates for non-fatal injuries (BLS, 2013). The task of operating a jackhammer presents several risk factors that promote the high rates of injuries to this industry sector. Until the introduction of the lift assist, relatively few interventions were available to make the task of operating a jackhammer safer. However, no research has been conducted to support that this device is able to make jackhammering safer. The aim of …