Half of all Swedish forests are owned by private individuals, and at least 215,000 people work in these privately owned forest holdings. However, only lethal accidents are systematically monitored among self-employed forest workers. Therefore, data from the registries of the Swedish Work Environment Authority, the Labor Insurance Organization and the regional University Hospital in Umeå were ga...

OBJECTIVE To examine the problem of accidental injury to children on farms. DESIGN Prospective county based study of children presenting to accident and emergency departments over 12 months with injuries sustained in a farm setting and nationwide review of fatal childhood farm accidents over the four years April 1986 to March 1990. SETTING Accident and emergency departments in Aberystwyth, ...

Generally, airplane upsets in flight are considered a precursor to loss of control (LOC-I) accidents, and unfortunately LOC-I is classified as the leading cause fatal accidents. To further explore risk factors, causal relationships, coupling mechanism upsets, this study proposed analysis model integrating Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM) Bayesian Network (BN). Seventeen key factors were...

Pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities account for approximately 21% and 8% of all road fatalities in the EU, respectively. The objective was to describe the characteristics of fatal crashes with pedestrians and bicyclists on Swedish rural roads and to investigate the potential of different infrastructure and vehicle interventions to prevent them. The Swedish Transport Administration (STA) in-dept...

Investigation and analysis of accidents are critical elements of safety management. The over-riding purpose of an organization in carrying out an accident investigation is to prevent similar accidents, as well as seek a general improvement in the management of health and safety. Hundreds of workers have suffered injuries while installing, maintaining, or servicing machinery and equipment due to...

Correspondence to: Dr D M B Hall, Community Health Services, Clare House, St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 OQT. Epidemiology of head injury in childhood Between the ages of 1 and 14 years accidents constitute the greatest single cause of death and head injuries account for 40% of these, amounting to 403 in the United Kingdom in 1985.1 Only about one quarter of children who rece...