(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.
Numerous definitions exist of accidents and incidents at work. The nature of the definitions often depends on the context and the purpose such as accident prevention (1.1), workers' compensation (1.2) and statistics (1.3). The definition of an accident at work in the context of accident prevention.