OBJECTIVE To categorise the characteristics, causes and rates of occupational injuries referred to the Emergency Department of a Turkish hospital. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted at a university-based hospital in Edirne, Turkey, from January 1, 2010 to May 1, 2011. Parameters evaluated included: gender, age, occurrence mechanism, injury type, injury localisation, sector, seaso...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence of work-related diseases, injuries, and complaints in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao and to identify some next steps in the prevention process. METHODS All of the three countries' 18 occupational health specialists were asked to participate; 100% agreed to report all work-related diseases, injuries, and complaints in 2004-2008. A standard online notification f...

INTRODUCTION Workforce is one of the pillars of development in any country. Therefore, the workforce's health is very important, and analyzing its threatening factors is one of the fundamental steps for health planning. This study was the first part of a comprehensive study aimed at comparing the fitting methods to analyze and model the factors threatening health in occupational injuries. MET...

BACKGROUND Needle-Stick Injuries (NSIs) are among the hazards and problems that can expose health workers to infections. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the rate of NSIs in a teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional, analytical and descriptive study was conducted at one of the teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran, in 2013. The study population was...

INTRODUCTION Injury rate among mining workers in Zimbabwe was 789/1000 workers in 2008. The proportion of severe occupational injuries increased from 18% in 2008 to 37% in 2009. We investigated factors associated with severe injuries at the mine. METHODS An unmatched 1:1 case-control study was carried out at the mine, a case was any worker who suffered severe occupational injury at the mine a...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to assess the nature of association between job stress and occupational injuries among firefighters in Korea. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING We conducted a nationwide survey using self-reported questionnaires in South Korea. PARTICIPANTS A survey was conducted among 30 630 firefighters; 25 616 (83.6%) responded. Our study included firefighters who were 20-59 year...

Occupational injury is one of many health concerns related to small-scale gold mining (ASGM), but few data exist on the subject, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2011 and 2013, we examined accidents, injuries, and potential risk factors in a Ghanaian ASGM community. In 2011, 173 participants were surveyed on occupational history and health, and 22 of these were surveyed again in 2013. Injur...

In Massachusetts, as in the United States as a whole, the fatal occupational injury rate for Hispanic workers (3.3 per 100,000 workers per year) is higher than that for white workers (2.2 per 100,000 workers per year).1 Although some information about the risk of nonfatal occupational injuries among racial and ethnic groups is available nationally,2 data for Massachusetts are limited. The worke...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in an on-going effort to address the issue of injuries to youth on farms in the U.S., collaborated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to complete the 2001 Childhood Agricultural Injury Survey (CAIS). These data, collected via telephone surveys, provide information on nonfatal injuries which occurred to youth under 20...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to estimate the costs of job-related injuries in agriculture in the United States for 1992. METHODS The authors reviewed data from national surveys to assess the incidence of fatal and non-fatal farm injuries. Numerical adjustments were made for weaknesses in the most reliable data sets. For example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Annual Survey estimat...