(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.
Of these, 6 million were due to injuries within the workplace, while 28 million were âwork-relatedâ ill health days. It is, therefore, very important to identify the major causes of accidents as the first step in preventing them in order to reduce injury and health care costs.