in industries, in general, occurrence of accidents is not negligible in which injure the workforce and burden cost to society. the main purpose of this study was investigation of industrial accidents and their trend in fars province. this is a descriptive analytical retrospective study in which data on industrial accidents were collected from the labor organization of fars province during years...

Computers are increasingly being introduced into safety-critical systems and, as a consequence, have been involved in accidents. Some of the most widely cited software-related accidents in safety-critical systems involved a computerized radiation therapy machine called the Therac-25. Between June 1985 and January 1987, six known accidents involved massive overdoses by the Therac-25 -with result...

Human errors are responsible for 67.57% of accidents in one hundred years of aviation history (1905-2005). UAV technology was developed to eliminate human limitations and reduce chances of human factor in accidents. However, this experiment proved to be questionable, as the statistics show higher number of accidents involving human errors in unmanned systems. The aim of study is to determine ca...

Despite the efforts of driver’s training and other safety programs to make U.S. highways and roads safe, thousands of U.S. citizens are killed each year in traffic accidents that could have been prevented. A similar problem exists in the U.S. Army where several hundred soldiers have been killed in the last decade in preventable combat vehicle accidents while on operational deployments around th...

Workplace accidents are an important economic phenomenon. Yet, the pro-cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents are not well understood. They could be related to fluctuations in effort and working hours, but workplace accidents may also be affected by reporting behavior. Our paper uses unique data on workplace accidents from an Austrian matched worker-firm dataset to study in detail how eco...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the occurrence of deaths directly associated with urban violence among fatal work-related accidents. METHODS Verbal autopsies were performed with the relatives and coworkers of residents of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil, who died from external causes in 2015. We have also analyzed police reports and reports of the Legal Medical Institute related to these deaths. ...