In China, traffic accident data is published annually by the Traffic Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security [1]. Accidents without casualties are usually not included. To gain a complete understanding and reliable insight of Shanghai traffic accidents, the project team collected the original accidents records on 192 Shanghai roads between 1-1-2009 and 12-31-2009. The o...

Construction industry involves the highest risk of occupational accidents and bodily injuries, which range from mild to very severe. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to identify the factors associated with accident severity rate (ASR) in the largest Iranian construction companies based on data about 500 occupational accidents recorded from 2009 to 2013. We also gathered data on safety ...

INTRODUCTION Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in improving bus safety operations worldwide. While in the United States buses are considered relatively safe, the number of bus accidents is far from being negligible, triggering the introduction of the Motor-coach Enhanced Safety Act of 2011. METHOD The current study investigates the underlying risk factors of bus accident severity...

In Europe traffic accidents are now widely recorded in national data bases. In view of the massive amounts of accident data, the use of data mining tools is essential to sift truly relevant information, and to extract reliable relations between injuries severity and potential causation factors. We present an innovative data mining approach for in depth investigation of causation in accidents da...

Ship-related marine oil spills pose a significant threat to the environment, and while it may not be possible prevent such incidents entirely, effective clean-up efforts can minimize their impact on environment. The success of these is influenced by various factors, including accident-related factors as type accident, location, environmental weather conditions, well emergency response-related a...