Publications by authors named "G S Sorock"
Introduction: Although occupational injuries are among the leading causes of death and disability around the world, the burden due to occupational injuries has historically been under-recognized, obscuring the need to address a major public health problem.
Methods: We established the Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index (LMWSI) to provide a reliable annual metric of the leading causes of the most serious workplace injuries in the United States based on direct workers compensation (WC) costs.
Results: More than $600 billion in direct WC costs were spent on the most disabling compensable non-fatal injuries and illnesses in the United States from 1998 to 2010.
Background: While meatpacking is a physically demanding industry, the effect of depression on risks for injury has not been studied.
Objective: To assess depressive disorders (major depression and dysthymia) using a validated screening tool administered to injured and uninjured meatpacking workers in two Midwestern plants.
Methods: Matched case-control analyses were conducted among 134 workers to evaluate the association between depressive disorder and the occurrence of laceration injury.
Objective: To describe characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalised for injuries occurring in industrial settings during a 1-year period.
Methods: A retrospective analysis of hospital admissions in the USA in 2006 using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample was performed. The International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9 CM) code E849.
Objectives: The authors estimated the associations between transient risk factors and laceration injuries in workers at two meatpacking plants in the Midwest.
Methods: The case-crossover design was used to collect within-subject transient work task and personal-level exposure information. RRs of laceration injuries were estimated by comparing exposures during the 'hazard' period (just before the laceration injury) with exposures in the 'control' period (the previous workweek).
A case-crossover study of work-related acute traumatic hand injuries in the People's Republic of China.
Scand J Work Environ Health
March 2012
Objective: The aim of this study was to quantify potential transient risk factors for occupational acute hand injury among hospitalized workers in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Methods: Participants were recruited from 11 medical facilities in 3 cities of the PRC. A face-to-face interview was used to collect information on the occurrence of 8 potential risk factors within a 90-minute time period before an acute traumatic hand injury and during a control period within the month before the injury.