(December 2012) Fort Lesley J. McNair is a United States Army post located on the tip of Greenleaf Point, the peninsula that lies at the confluence of the Potomac River and the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. To the peninsula's west is the Washington Channel, while the Anacostia River is on its south side.
In many industrialized countries, where the number of deaths from work-related accidents has been falling, deaths from occupational disease, notably asbestosis, is on the rise. Globally, asbestos alone is responsible for 100,000 occupational deaths per year.
And back to my concern about slips and falls, they are one of the three events that result in most workplace incidents. Slips, trips and falls accounted for about 27 percent of cases involving days away from work in 2014. Overexertion (such as straining to lift) accounted for 33 percent of cases; contact (such as being hit by a piece of equipment) accounted for 22 percent.