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Arch Dermatol. 1994;130(6):699-701.

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Work-related burns are a lea-ding cause of occupational injury in the United states.¹ A substantial proportion of these burns occur among restaurant workers— often affecting adolescents working in fast-food establishments. This report summarizes investigations of restaurant-associated occupational burns by the state health departments in Colorado and Minnesota.

Colorado

Case report.

On June 3, 1991, the Colorado Department of Health (CDH) was notified of a work-related burn sustained by a 20-year-old employee of a fast-food restaurant. The employee had been following the restaurant's standard procedure for cleaning exhaust filters located approximately 5 feet above a deep fryer. She had placed a wooden cover over three of the fryer's four bins, all four of which contained hot grease; no cover was available for the fourth bin. While standing on a chair she had placed on the wooden cover to reach and remove the filters, she fell, sustaining second- and third-degree burns . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Footnotes
From October 1987 through September 1992, NIOSH funded SENSOR projects in 10 states to develop state-based capacity for recognizing, reporting, investigating, and preventing selected occupational injuries and illnesses. These 10 states and four additional states received renewed SENSOR funding commencing in October 1992.

CDH is one of three state health departments conducting surveillance for persons hospitalized with occupational burns. The Oklahoma State Department of Health began surveillance in 1987, and the Oregon State Health Division obtained SENSOR funding to conduct surveillance in October 1992.

Cost data were not available for the remainder of the reported cases.

Minnesota law requires that employers file a FRII for persons who miss work and/or are restricted from normal activities for 3 or more days or have permanent impairment resulting from a work-related injury or illness. These data are compiled in a centralized data base within the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. Data include personal identifiers of the injured worker, source and nature of injury, event type (e.g., fall or explosion), body part injured, and date of injury.

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