Fishing penetration injuries

Short reports Fishing penetration injuries

Background—Fishing involves millions of people throughout the world and is considered a pleasant and harmless sport. However, many kinds of injury can occur. Penetrating injuries to the extremities by fishing equipment such as hooks and harpoons, and even by scales, or infection from penetration of scales etc are relatively common although hardly ever reported in the literature. Methods—Illustr...

Eye injuries induced by a barbed three-pronged fishing spear.

Work related injuries in small scale commercial fishing.

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of work related injury in a group of small scale, independent commercial fishers. DESIGN Cross sectional survey (baseline instrument of a prospective cohort study). SETTING AND SUBJECTS Commercial fishers in eastern North Carolina. RESULTS A cohort of 219 commercial fishers was established and 215 subjects completed an injury questionnaire. The main ...

Classification and coding of commercial fishing injuries by work processes: an experience in the Danish fresh market fishing industry.

BACKGROUND Work-related injuries in commercial fishing are of concern internationally. To better identify the causes of injury, this study coded occupational injuries by working processes in commercial fishing for fresh market fish. METHODS A classification system of the work processes was developed by participation in fishing vessel trips where observations and video recordings of the work o...

Fatal and Nonfatal Injuries Involving Fishing Vessel Winches — Southern Shrimp Fleet, United States, 2000–2011

Workers in the commercial fishing industry have the highest occupational fatality rate in the United States, nearly 35 times higher in 2011 than the rate for all U.S. workers. During 2000-2009, a total of 504 fishermen were killed in the U.S. fishing industry, most commonly by drowning as a result of vessels sinking (51%) and falls overboard (30%). Another 10% of fatalities (51 deaths) were cau...