Ethnic differences in accident rates at work.
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Ethnic differences in accident rates at work.
The accidents at work of 4482 employees in a car engine machining and assembly plant in south east England were studied retrospectively over a 12 month period. The study population was composed of Asian (22%), white (66%), and West Indian employees (12%). The crude accident rates differed among the groups, the means being Asians 1.58, white 1.23, and West Indians 1.28. There was, however, no co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1987
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.44.3.206