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 1 Women working in construction: risks and rewards
Authors Goldenhar-LM; Welch-LS; Hunting-KL 
Source Safe Workplace 2000 Aug-Sep; :1-2 
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NIOSHTIC No. 20021236 
AbstractWomen currently make up almost half of the U.S. work force and increasingly are moving into occupations, such as the construction trades, once held exclusively by men. In 1997, there were 8.1 million construction workers, of which 2% were skilled tradeswomen. Construction is a dangerous industry: 17% of all fatal on-the-job injuries occur in construction, which also has a high rate of nonfatal injuries. While both men and women working in construction face many of the same risks, there are some unique issues that are of greater concern to women. The average fatality rate of 1.80 per 100,000 female construction workers was more than twice the all-industry average for women workers. Tradeswomen are more likely than their male counterparts to die in job-related motor vehicle accidents or from job-related homicide and less likely to die from falls. Of women killed by motor vehicles, 30% worked as so-called flaggers. 
KeywordsConstruction-industry; Construction-workers; Demographic-characteristics; Sex-factors; Risk-analysis; Risk-factors; Injuries; Traumatic-injuries; Motor-vehicles; Accident-analysis; Accident-rates; Accident-statistics; Accidents; Musculoskeletal-system-disorders; Back-injuries 
Publication Date20000801 
Document TypeJournal Article 
Fiscal Year2000 
NTIS Accession No. 
NTIS Price 
ISSN1078-3512 
NIOSH DivisionDSHEFS 
Source NameSafe Workplace 
StateOH 
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