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Ua66/14/4 Kentucky Partnership Newsletter, Vol. Iii, No. 1, Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health & Safety

University Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Kentucky Partnership for Farm Family Health & Safety.

!!Logging Hazard Alert!!, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Kentucky Haz Alerts--Tractors/Logging

In just a little over two years, at least 16 Kentucky loggers have been killed as a result of being struck by falling trees or branches (12), or by logs falling from trucks they were unloading (4).

Described below are two representative fatal incidents, followed by our recommendations for prevention of similar incidents.

La Clinique Des Maux De Dos - Un Modèle De Prise En Charge, En Prévention De La Chronicité, Patrick Loisel, Pierre Durand, Lise Gosselin, Robert Simard, Jean Turcotte

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Worker Killed In Fall From Oil Tank, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Falls

A 50-year-old male was killed when he fell from the top of a 12-foot high oil tank. The victim was an oil gauger for a company that transports crude oil. His job was to obtain samples of the oil to check its quality. On the day of the incident he was to check the oil at a site located about 100 miles from his office. He was an experienced gauger and had been to this site many times before. This company owned four cylinder-shaped oil tanks. Three of the tanks were 15 feet high and one was 12 feet high …

Impact De L'Avance En Âge Sur Les Scénarios D'Accidents Et Les Indicateurs De Lésions Dans Les Secteurs De La Santé Et Des Services Sociaux, De L'Administration Provinciale Et De L'Administration Municipale, Esther Cloutier, Patrice Duguay

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Distribution Des Résultats D'Analyses Environnementales Réalisées En Laboratoire : Portrait De La Situation Sur Cinq Années (1989-1993) Et Impact Des Nouvelles Normes, Claude Ostiguy, François Hébert, Pierre Larivière, Guylaine Beauchamp, Alain Lajoie, Thierry Petitjean-Roget

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Validation D'Une Démarche D'Ergonomie Participative Dans Deux Industries Du Secteur Électrique, Marie St-Vincent, Denise Chicoine, Sylvie Beaugrand

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Mise Au Point D'Une Méthode D'Échantillonnage Des Microorganismes Sur Filtre De Polycarbonate, Geneviève Marchand

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Farmer Dies In Cornpicker, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging

On 22 November 1995, a 52-year-old farmer died when he was caught in the corn picker he was operating. He was a full-time farmer and had been involved in the family farming business all of his life. On the day of the incident, the victim and his 20-year-old son had been working in the field together operating the corn picker. After obtaining a full load, the son transported the load back for storage while the farmer stayed in the field to finish a small section of corn. When he did not return home at the expected time, his wife and …

Impact De L'Avance En Âge Sur Les Scénarios D'Accidents Et Les Indicateurs De Lésions Dans Le Secteur De L'Administration Municipale - Tome 1 : Rapport Et Tableaux, Esther Cloutier, Patrice Duguay

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Impact De L'Avance En Âge Sur Les Scénarios D'Accidents Et Les Indicateurs De Lésions Dans Le Secteur De L'Administration Municipale - Tome 2 : Figures, Esther Cloutier, Patrice Duguay

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Impact De L'Avance En Âge Sur Les Scénarios D'Accidents Et Les Indicateurs De Lésions Dans Le Secteur De L'Administration Provinciale - Tome 2 : Figures, Esther Cloutier, Patrice Duguay

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Impact De L'Avance En Âge Sur Les Scénarios D'Accidents Et Les Indicateurs De Lésions Dans Le Secteur De L'Administration Provinciale - Tome 1 : Rapport Et Tableaux, Esther Cloutier, Patrice Duguay

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Farm Worker Killed When Caught In Power Take-Off (Pto), Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging

A 32-year-old male was killed when he was caught in a rotating power take-off (PTO) shaft. He had been involved in farming for many years and often helped his friends who owned a dairy farm. The farm worker was helping one of the owners of the farm load corn from the silage wagon into the feeding trough. Both the farm worker and the owner were experienced in operating the equipment on the farm and had worked together on this type of task before. However, the owner had always operated the equipment controls. The PTO connecting the tractor to the silage …

Étude D'Un Moyen De Prévention D'Une Maladie Professionnelle (Le Poumon Du Fermier) : Ensemencement De Bactéries Dans Le Fourrage, Caroline Duchaine, Anne Mériaux, Gaétane Racine-Bédard, Évelyne Israël-Assayag, Gilles Brochu, Marc C. Lavoie, Yvon Cormier

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Évaluation Et Étude Du Comportement Dynamique D'Un Système De Suspension Torsio-Élastique Pour Véhicules Tout Terrain, Paul-Émile Boileau, Subhash Rakheja

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Job Accommodation In The Automobile Industry : Addressing The Problem Of Lateral Epicondylitis, Thanigaivel Ashwin Raj

Theses and Dissertations (ETD)

Cumulative trauma disorders are musculoskeletal problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff tendinitis, and epicondylitis which can affect assembly line workers. The injuries are thought to result from repetitive motions performed under excessive loads in anomalous postures. The project aimed to design, build, install, and evaluate worksite accommodation at the Saturn plant for a worker with right lateral epicondylitis. The goal was to make her fully functional in her original team which required addressing the injurious aspects of the task that caused or aggravated her injury.

A process of observation, interview, and analysis identified “the door mount” operation on …

Les Rechutes De Lésions Professionnelles De 1991 : Une Analyse Des Données De La Csst : Résumé, Michèle Gervais, Jacques Cousin

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Évaluation Des Classes De Dos (Back-School) Dans Le Traitement Des Affections Vertébrales Lombaires Aiguës Par Étude Contrôlée Avec Randomisation, Richard Leclaire, Michel Dupuis, Roland Proulx, John M. Esdaile, Michel Rossignol, Samy Suissa

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Incidence Du Syndrome Du Canal Carpien Selon La Profession Sur L'Île De Montréal Et Distribution Des Facteurs De Risque, Michel Rossignol, Susan Stock, Louis Patry, Benedict Armstrong

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Chaque année, près de 1 adulte sur 1, 000 résidant à Montréal, subira une intervention chirurgicale pour le syndrome du canal carpien (SCC), ce qui représente aux alentours de 1, 000 personnes. Le ratio femme: homme est de trois pour un et l'incidence chez les femmes de plus de 45 ans est plus du double de la moyenne. Les personnes opérées pour le SCC rapportent des symptômes typiques du SCC, aux mains et aux poignets, qui évoluent depuis 2 ans en moyenne au moment de l'opération. La quasi-totalité de ces personnes rapportent des problèmes à effectuer des tâches de la …

Impact De L'Avance En Âge Sur Les Scénarios D'Accidents Et Les Indicateurs De Lésions Dans Le Secteur De La Santé Et Des Services Sociaux - Tome 2 : Figures, Esther Cloutier, Patrice Duguay

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Révision Des Catégories Professionnelles Utilisées Dans Les Études De L'Irsst Portant Sur Les Indicateurs Quinquennaux De Lésions Professionnelles, François Hébert, Patrice Duguay, Paul Massicotte, Micheline Lévy

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Impact De L'Avance En Âge Sur Les Scénarios D'Accidents Et Les Indicateurs De Lésions Dans Le Secteur De La Santé Et Des Services Sociaux - Tome 1 : Rapport Et Tableaux, Esther Cloutier, Patrice Duguay

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Ua66/14/4 Kentucky Partnership Newsletter, Vol. Ii, No. 9, Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health & Safety

University Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Kentucky Partnership for Farm Family Health & Safety.

Détermination Des Caractéristiques Acoustiques Optimales Des Alarmes De Recul, Chantal Laroche, Marie-Josée Ross, Louis Lefebvre, Richard Larocque

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Risk Management Program Implementation On Worker Safety Knowledge, John C. Donnelly

Community & Environmental Health Theses & Dissertations

This study examined the effect of the implementation of a risk management program tool on worker safety knowledge in a composite building material fabrication facility whose workers suffered from an increasingly high injury (incidence) rate in recent years. Risk assessment codes (RACs) and job safety analyses (JSAs) were the primary tools used to introduce workers to the concept of risk. Because employee involvement is a crucial element in JSA development. employee input was frequently solicited throughout JSA development.

The study instrument consisted of a pre-test and post-test survey, to which an experimental and control group were subjected. The instrument was …

Limiting Noise Exposure Associated With Hearing Aid Use, Alison Mary Gilbert

Dissertations and Theses

Industrial workers who have sustained hearing losses often wear hearing aids on the job in order to hear their co-worker's speech. However they risk damaging their hearing further by amplifying the high levels of background noise typical of such environments. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has established guidelines to protect workers' hearing. A maximum allowable level of 90 dBA averaged over a period of eight hours is considered safe. Wearing hearing aids on the job may expose an individual to considerably higher levels, however no guidelines as to maximum allowable levels of amplified noise exist at this time. …

Log Rolls Off Truck During Unloading And Strikes Logger, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging

A 52-year-old male logger was killed when he was struck by a log rolling off of his truck during the unloading process. The victim was a self-employed logger who had at least 25 years of experience. He was using the family-owned truck to haul a load of logs to the mill. The vertical stakes on the flatbed truck were approximately three feet high with the logs stacked another 3-4 feet above the stakes. He arrived at the mill at approximately 9am and began the unloading procedure. One of the chains that secured the load of logs was in two pieces …

Logger Killed When Log Rolls Off Truck At Sawmill, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging

A 63-year-old male logger was struck by a log that rolled off a loaded truck at a sawmill. The victim was working with his two nephews that day and they were preparing to unload the logs from their two trucks. The logs were stacked at least twice as high as the standards on the sides of the flatbed trailers. As one nephew began to unchain the logs from his truck, the victim walked up to the truck, out of view of his nephew. When the chains were released, a log at the top of the load rolled off and struck …

Farm Worker Killed In Tractor Rollover On Public Roadway, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging

A 21-year-old farm worker was killed in a tractor rollover incident. The victim was driving a tractor on a secondary public road, pulling an unloaded 18-foot flatbed trailer, when he lost control. After the tractor wheels went off the right side of the road, the victim overcorrected, which caused the vehicle to become unbalanced; he was thrown from the tractor as it overturned into a ditch. It was not equipped with an appropriate rollover protective structure (ROPS) or a seatbelt. The unit, which included a canopy, had been installed to provide shade on summer days and cover in occasional downpours, …