OR-FACE issues hazard alert on crab fishing

摘要

Portland, OR - The Oregon Occupational Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation has issued a hazard alert on the dangers of crab fishing. Released Sept. 2, the bulletin notes that from 2000 to 2009, the largest number of commercial fishing deaths occurred in Dungeness crab fisheries off the West Coast, at a rate of 310 per 100,000 full-time workers.