background: this study attempted to investigate traffic accident fatalities during 2004-2009 and the effect of fuel rationing on traffic accident fatalities .   materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study on available data of all traffic accident fatalities in fars province, iran, during 2004-2009. to identify and fit the best model, various instruments, including the autocorrelatio...

this report presents a case of vertebral artery dissection (vad), which was misdiagnosed as cerebrovascular accident (cva) in initial examinations.in this case, a 33-year old woman, who was involved in a car accident, was referred to khoy legal medicine centre by traffic court two months after the accident.the patient was examined by the author, who was on an assignment at the centre.at this ti...

background : biorhythm is one of the latest issues of subjective ergonomics. it can be effective in raising the level of job satisfaction, and therefore, preventing the occurrence of accidents in the workplace through understanding the physical, emotional, and mental characteristics of individuals. thus, the aim of this study was to examine the impact of biological cycles on occupational accide...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The study aimed to assess the frequency of head and face injuries in motorcyclists who had an accident and to find out the relationship between helmet use and frequency of these injuries. METHODS: A cross-sectional study with multi-stage sampling method provides data on the injured motorcyclists with road accidents. Data came from a registration form which has documented inf...

the present study aimed to investigate the characteristics of occupational accidents and frequency and severity of work related accidents in the construction industry among iranian insured workers during the years 20072011.the iranian social security organization (isso) accident database containing 21,864 cases between the years 2007-2011 was applied in this study. in the next step, total accid...

  Background: Millions of construction industry accidents occur in the world causing demages and injuries to workers and consequently economical losses every year. The aim of this study was to determine an estimator model for accidents among construction industry workers, in the years 2006 - 2011 for the first time, in Yazd city.   Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study, ...