background: awareness of occupational hazards and its safety precautions among welders is an important health issue, especially in developing countries. objective: to assess the awareness of occupational hazards and utilization of safety measures among welders in coastal south india. methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted among 209 welders in puducherry, south india. baseline characteri...

the palm wine trade is an important economic activity for many tropical rural areas worldwide. in west africa, palm wine holds high sociocultural and traditional values. wine tappers often climb very tall trees with rudimentary equipment to harvest palm sap and risk severe injuries in the event of a fall. furthermore, the wine quickly ferments beyond the desired taste and alcohol content, reduc...

OBJECTIVES The case-crossover study design was developed to examine triggers for the onset of myocardial infarction. This paper seeks to examine selected methodological issues when applying the case-crossover method to the study of traumatic injuries in the work environment. METHODS Researchers known to be working on occupational case-crossover studies were invited to present at a workshop he...

Worker perception of risk influences worker behavior and consequently exposure to risks. However, an inverse relationship between perception of occupational risks and work-related injuries has not yet been clearly established. A matched case-control was performed aiming to investigate possible differences in perception of occupational risks between workers who had suffered occupational injuries...

In 2013, one in five reported nonfatal occupational injuries occurred among workers in the health care and social assistance industry, the highest number of such injuries reported for all private industries. In 2011, U.S. health care personnel experienced seven times the national rate of musculoskeletal disorders compared with all other private sector workers. To reduce the number of preventabl...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the extent to which the political economy of US states, including the relative power of organized labor, predicts rates of fatal occupational injury. METHODS We described states' political economies with 6 contextual variables measuring social and political conditions: "right-to-work" laws, union membership density, labor grievance rates, state government debt, unem...

OBJECTIVE To describe the scenarios of typical occupational injuries in lumber industry. METHODS All occupational injuries reported to a INSS (National Institute of Social Security) center in Lages, SC, Brazil from January 1997 to January 1999 were identified. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out and 254 injury report forms were analyzed. Multivariate analysis was conducted usi...

Despite evidence that more than 80% of female victims of intimate partner violence, seen for medical treatment of violence-related injuries, have sustained facial injuries, traumatic brain injury is often overlooked as a consequence of those injuries. This article reviews the scant literature available and examines research on equivalent injuries sustained by athletes. Practical domains of symp...

This study aimed to examine the characteristics of traumatic minor digital amputations in patients presenting emergency department, who were candidates for replantation and revascularization discuss clinical outcomes these patients. Upper extremity total/subtotal amputation cases Private Erzurum Buhara Hospital department between January 1, 2018, 2021, retrospectively evaluated. The demographic...

The most common cause of mortality in Chital and Nilgai was found to be hemorrhagic shock due to traumatic injuries (8). Chital and Nilgai (1 each) had dislocation of vertebral column and three animals were found to have wounds or several injuries. One male Chital succumbed to death due to fracture of femur and shock during shifting operation, whereas, horn injury of thorax and abdomen due to i...