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This study focused on occupational hazards associated with PABOD Brewery Company in Port Harcourt, in Rivers State. The descriptive cross-sectional survey design was adopted for the study. The sample size for this study was four hundred. Data was collected using a self-developed questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, mean and ANOVA test was used for testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The finding of the study showed a moderate level of occupational hazards associated with workers in PABOD Brewery Company. The tested hypotheses showed a significant difference between age of workers and occupational hazards in PABOD brewery company [F(16, 373) = 20.029; p<0.05], and a non-significant difference between employment status of workers and occupational hazards in PABOD brewery company [F(3, 386) = 1.948; p>0.05]. It was concluded that age influences occupational hazards, while employment status has a non-significant influence among workers in PABOD Brewery Company. It was recommended that the Federal Government, PABOD Brewery Company management and health agencies should identify factors that contribute to sources of occupational hazards and reduce the impact of occupational hazards such as providing more staff to adequately cover units in order to reduce physical and psychosocial hazards, providing clear and specific job description.