. "3 Health and Safety at Work." Protecting Youth at Work: Health, Safety, and Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the United States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1998.
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Protecting Youth at Work: Health, Safety, and Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the United States
TABLE 3-3 Typical Nonfatal Youth Work Injuries, for Selected Industries
Industry
Injury
Circumstances
Restaurants
Cut fingers
Knife slips while cutting Finger contacts blade while using or cleaning power meat slicers
Burns
Grease splatters onto worker from grill or deep fryer Hand contact with grill while cleaning Slips on a slick surface and contacts grill or fryer when trying to break fall Grease spills on worker when draining or transporting hot grease from a fryer Hot liquid or food spills on worker
Strains
Slips on a slick surface and strains muscles trying to avoid the fall
Bruises (contusions)
Slips on a slick surface and is bruised in fall
Grocery Stores
Cut arms or legs
Case-cutter slips while opening cardboard boxes
Torso strains
Overexertion while lifting or moving inventory Overexertion while lifting customer bags Overexertion while retrieving carts from parking lot
Nursing Homes
Back strains
Overexertion while lifting patients
underestimated. The fact that the data come from hospital emergency rooms and workers' compensation claims indicates that the injuries were serious enough to require medical attention. Knight et al. (1995) report that 25 percent of adolescents who visit emergency rooms for work-related injuries experienced limitation in their normal activities for more than 1 week. Forty-four percent of adolescents who received workers' compensation payments in New York
