A MALE INCUMBENT WORKER INDUSTRIAL DATABASE .3. LUMBAR CERVICAL FUNCTIONAL TESTING

Study Design. A group of 160 incumbent male railroad workers was admin istered a battery of isokinetic and isoinertial lumbar/cervical liftin g tests that served as a paradigm for whole-person functional testing of manual handling tasks. Results. Results demonstrated that the worke rs' performance was near normal or somewhat above population averages according to previously derived heterogeneous normative samples. Howev er, there were some differences among the four laboring crafts that ma de up the present incumbent worker sample. Conclusions. The implicatio ns of these differences are discussed.