However, just as recent celebrated accidents in medicine have directed attention to patient safety, previous highly visible accidents in other industries, such as power generation and transportation drew attention to issues surrounding the label “human error” (e.g., Three Mile Island in 1979; the capsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise in 1982; various aircraft accidents). The intense intere...

The objective of this study is to reach a better understanding of accidents on Swedish roads involving tractors and to suggest ways of preventing them. In an earlier study we analyzed police-reported fatal accidents and accidents that led to physical injuries from 1992 to 2005. During each year of this period, tractors were involved in 128 traffic accidents on average, an average of 7 people we...

background injuries and accidents are the first cause of death in the first 5 years of children life in the world; the present study was conducted to investigate the extent and distribution of accidents in the infants under one year in hamadan province, iran. materials and methods:this cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was carried out using of   data of injuries and accidents related t...

Minor bicycle accidents are defined as "bicycle accidents not involving death or heavily injured persons, implying that possible hospital visits last less than 24 hours". Statistics about these accidents and related injuries are very poor, because they are mostly not reported to police, hospitals or insurance companies. Yet, they form a major share of all bicycle accidents. Official registratio...

roads are crucial to our everyday lives as we use them  by driving, riding, walking or travelling as a pedestrian. worldwide, more than  1.2 million people are killed on roads every year and up to 50 million more are injured; with most casualties from developing countries. in addition to different disabilities, road.accidents cause extensive psychological disorders and grief, and occasionally e...

background accident is an event that occurs suddenly, unexpectedly and inadvertently under unforeseen circumstances. accidents can have individual, social and economical effects 2080 injury cases including labor-law workers were studied in mashhad city, islamic republic of iran. their data were collected from the labor office archive. objectives this study was conducted to determine the effecti...

conclusions applying this information can be useful to policy makers and managers for planning and implementing special interventions to prevent and limit future accidental deaths. background traffic accidents are the main cause of deaths in developing countries. fatalities due to traffic accidents are assessed through a three-year time series forecast. objectives the aim of this study is to us...

To test our hypothesis that the onset of the menopause would be associated with an increased number of underfoot accidents in the female population for both fracture and non-fracture injuries, we analysed 90061 accidents recorded by the Home Accident Surveillance System and classified them as to (a) whether a fracture resulted, and (b) whether they were 'underfoot'. We defined 'underfoot' accid...

Highway construction zone safety has been a research focus inmany countries formany decades. In the United States, regardless of the research efforts devoted, highway construction zones remain a serious safety concern for government agencies, legislatures, the highway industry, and the traveling public. In this study, the fatal and injury accidents between 1992 and 2004 inKansas highway constru...