AN ANALYSIS OF INJURIES AT DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY WORK SITES

The Construction Industry Research and Policy Center (CIRPC) at the University of Tennessee was awarded a contract by the Center to Protect Workers’ Rights, under their grant program with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), to analyze injuries of employees of the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) and their contractors’ working at DOE work sites. The injury data analyzed were injuries recorded in DOE’s Computerized Accident Incident Reporting System (CAIRS).
The primary objective of this study was to gain understanding of direct and indirect causes of types of injuries during the performance of various tasks in sufficient detail to suggest and test intervention strategies in subsequent studies. Secondary objectives were to evaluate the quality of the injury cases recorded in CAIRS and to estimate the cost of injuries to DOE.