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Record W2992884375

Review of legal suits involving hand-arm vibration

2011· article· en· W2992884375 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Thomas Jetzer

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian acoustics · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEffects of Vibration on Health
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPlaintiffWork (physics)PopulationVibrationBusinessMedicineEngineeringForensic engineeringPhysical medicine and rehabilitationRisk analysis (engineering)PsychologyLawPolitical scienceEnvironmental healthMechanical engineeringAcoustics
DOInot available

Abstract

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The characteristics of lawsuits involving hand-arm vibration (HAV), the medical issues involved, and the strategies of defense and plaintiff attorneys as noted in a particular occupational medicine practice, are outlined. The study finds that there is widespread lack of physician knowledge or appreciation for vibration-related upper extremity traumas. It is found that females doing jobs with high vibration exposure are noted to develop symptoms considerably faster and earlier then males. There must also be strong evidence that the vibration exposure has been long enough and sufficient to cause the pathology observed, taking into account the current standards. These legal suits may therefore have had a beneficial effect for the working population in general, as many companies are finally finding that it is more cost-effective to provide prevention and a proper work environment than to continue to fight or lose lawsuits.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.606
Threshold uncertainty score0.988

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.291
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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