John Heberger

PhD Student in Epidemiology

john.heberger@pitt.edu
jheberger@cdc.gov

John R. Heberger is an Epidemiologist at the Pittsburgh Mining Research Division of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CDC-NIOSH). His research focuses on occupational injuries, injury severity, and injury burden in the mining industry. John is also using workers’ compensation data to supplement existing mining injury surveillance data and to estimate costs associated with mining injuries. He has master’s degrees in Economics and Epidemiology from the University at Buffalo, SUNY and is a third year Ph.D. student in Epidemiology program at the University of Pittsburgh, advised by Dr. Tom Songer. 

Select presentations

  • Heberger, J.R., Nasarwanji, M.F., Pollard, J.P., & Kocher, L.M. (2022). Hand and Finger Injuries in the U.S. Mining Industry, 2011-2017. Accepted for presentation at the SME Annual Conference, March 1, Salt Lake City, UT.

  • Heberger, J.R. (2019) Overview of NIOSH Mining Injury Surveillance. Presented at the CSTE Annual Conference, June 3, Raleigh, NC.

  • Heberger, J.R. (2018) Demonstrating the financial impact of mining injuries using workers’ compensation data with the Safety Pays in Mining web application. Presented at the CSTE Annual Conference, June 12, West Palm Beach, FL. 

     

Select publications 

  • Heberger, J.R. & Fritz, J. (2019). Fatalities cost in Mining. Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, version 1.0, 2019 Mar: software. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/mining/works/coversheet2093.html 

  • Dempsey, P. G., Pollard, J., Porter, W. L., Mayton, A., Heberger, J. R., Gallagher, S., … & Drury, C. G. (2017). Development of Ergonomics Audits for Bagging, Haul Truck, and Maintenance and Repair Operations in Mining. Ergonomics, 60 (12) pp. 1739-1753. 

  • Gallagher, S. & Heberger, J.R. (2013). Examining the Interaction of Force and Repetition on Musculoskeletal Disorder Risk: A Systematic Literature Review. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 55(1), 108-124. 

Research Area(s) of Emphasis 

Injury Prevention Epidemiology 

Education

MS in Epidemiology,
University of Buffalo 

MA in Economics,
University of Buffalo 

BA in Economics, 
St. John Fisher College