OBJECTIVE To test the association between workplace abuse exposure and injury risk among hospital workers. We hypothesized that exposed workers would have higher injury rates than unexposed workers. METHODS Survey of direct-care workers (n = 1,497) in two hospitals. Exposure to workplace abuse was assessed through self-report; occupational injury reports were extracted from employee records. ...

BACKGROUND The US commercial fishing industry is hazardous, as measured by mortality data. However, research on non-fatal injuries is limited. Non-fatal injuries constitute the majority of occupational injuries and can result in workers' lowered productivity and wages, lost quality of life, and disability. In the United States, a Work Process Classification System (WPCS) has previously been app...

The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council, an independent statutory body, recently invited the British Orthopaedic Association to advise whether there was conclusive evidence of an occupational cause of any further types of repetitive strain injuries other than those currently recognised as industrial injuries. Two related conditions are currently recognised as "prescribed disorders": PD A4-cram...

background: northern ontario, canada has a larger elder population, more resource-based employment, and limited access to physicians and specialists compared to southern ontario. given these important differences, it is possible that work disability rates will vary between the two ontario jurisdictions. objective: to determine the association between time lost due to workplace injuries and illn...

Traumatic injuries of ear range from simple lacerations to complex avulsions and crush injuries. The complicating factors involved are cartilage involvement, poor vascularity of the region and need for high cosmetic satisfaction. Various techniques have been described for reconstruction of earlobe after traumatic injuries. Here, we describe the reconstruction of a partially avulsed pinna using ...

OBJECTIVES Workplace and contextual factors that may affect risk for worker injury are not well described. This study used results from an employee job satisfaction survey to construct aggregate indicators of the work environment and estimate the relative contribution of those factors to injury rates in a manufacturing cohort. METHODS Principal components analysis was used to construct four p...

introduction: rapid diagnosis of traumatic intrathoracic injuries leads to improvement in patient management. this study was designed to evaluate the diagnostic value of chest radiography (cxr) in comparison to chest computed tomography (ct) scan in diagnosis of traumatic intrathoracic injuries. methods: participants of this prospective diagnostic accuracy study included multiple trauma patient...

I n October 2003, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and its co-sponsors, the National Safety Council, the American Society of Safety Engineers and Liberty Mutual Center for Safety Research, hosted the Third National Occupational Injury Research Symposium—NOIRS 2003. NOIRS 2003 brought together the foremost researchers in occupational injury to present their late...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate demographic characteristics and clinical outcomes of work-related open globe injuries in the most industrialized region of Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS The demographic and medical records of patients with work-related open globe injuries who presented to the ophthalmology or emergency departments with an official occupational accident report were retrospectively review...