Disabling XXXX in the US construction industry, 1996.

@entity1643 @entity174 @entity4858 @entity5281 @entity158 @entity717 @entity130
In 1996 the US construction industry comprised 5.4% of the annual US employment but accounted for 7.8% of nonfatal @entity5281 and illness and 9.7% of cases involving at least a day away from work. Information in the published literature on the disability arising from construction @entity130 is limited. The construction claims experience (n = 35,790) of a large workers' compensation insurer with national coverage was examined. The leading types and sources of disabling occupational morbidity in 1996 in the US construction industry were identified. Disability duration was calculated from indemnity payments data using previously published methods. The average disability duration for an injured construction worker was 46 days with a median of 0 days. The most frequently occurring conditions were @entity1643 (14.8%), @entity4858 (8.5%), and finger lacerations (4.8%). Back @entity158 also accounted for the greatest percentage of construction claim costs (21.3%) and disability days (25.5%). However, the conditions with the @entity717 durations were @entity130 , including @entity174 of the ankle (median = 55 days), foot (42 days), and wrist (38 days). Same-level and elevated falls were the principal exposures for @entity174 of the wrist and ankle, whereas elevated falls and struck by incidents accounted for the majority of @entity174 . Manual materials handling activities were most often associated with @entity1643 disability. The results suggest that these most disabling @entity130 can be addressed by increasing primary prevention resources in slips and falls and exposures related to @entity130 as well as in reducing manual materials handling and other exposures associated with more gradual-onset @entity130 .
