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ArticleJournal of forestry2015

Working in the Shadows: Safety and Health in Forestry Services in Southern Oregon.

Carl Wilmsen, Diane Bush, Dinorah Barton-Antonio

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Article in Journal of forestry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Carl WilmsenNorthwest Forest Worker Center, Albany, CA.
Diane BushLabor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley.
Dinorah Barton-AntonioLabor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley.
University of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health CenterU50OH007544 · OH · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI FENSKE, RICHARD ARNOLD · 2001 to 2010
$7.1M
NIOSH CDC HHS U50 OH007544
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We conducted a small participatory survey to document occupational injuries and illnesses, medical treatment, wage issues, and general working conditions among 150 forest workers in southern Oregon who are mostly Spanish-speaking immigrants from Latin America. We used snowball sampling in administering the survey. Survey results showed a high rate of job-related injury among the workers who responded to our survey. Results also suggested that many forestry services contractors licensed in Jackson and Josephine counties may not always follow labor laws. The vast majority of workers surveyed reported being fearful of retaliation for reporting injuries. There were no differences in reported working conditions and wage issues between workers with H-2B visas and other workers in the sample. This finding suggests that current US labor and health and safety laws are not effectively protecting Oregon's forest workers, owing to forest workers' structural vulnerability-their low positioning in social structures supported by immigration and economic status-compounded by fear of retaliation. Immigration policies and enforcement practices that contribute to creating a labor system with these inherent vulnerabilities and power imbalances need to be further examined and changed.

Indexed as

forest managementforest workerslabor lawsoccupational safety and healthtransnationalism

Identifiers

PMID29643572
PMCPMC5890815
OpenAlexW2782114385

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Registered trials

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