OBJECTIVE This study examined risk factors for self-reported injury incurred before arrival at Ordnance School for advanced individual training (AIT). STUDY DESIGN During AIT in-processing, soldiers (n=27,289 men and 3856 women) completed a questionnaire that collected demographic and lifestyle information, and asked if the soldier currently had an injury that would affect their AIT performan...

Fabrizio G. Mastronardi,1 D. Denise Wood,1 Jiang Mei,3 Reinout Raijmakers,4 Vivian Tseveleki,5 Hans-Michael Dosch,2 Lesley Probert,5 Patrizia Casaccia-Bonnefil,3 and Mario A. Moscarello1 1Department of Structural Biology and Biochemistry and 2Infection, Immunity, Injury, and Repair, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8, 3Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, R...

AIM The aim of the study was to present results of blunt ocular trauma with lens luxation to the vitreous during wood chopping. METHODS A retrospective study of 15 patients treated in the Department of Ophthalmology between 2000-2011 who suffered from serious eye injury during wood chopping. As a standard surgical procedure, pars plana vitrectomy with lens removal and intraocular lens (IOL) i...

OBJECTIVE We utilized job safety analysis (JSA) and hazard identification for work accident prevention in Para rubber wood sawmills, which aimed to investigate occupational health risk exposures and assess the health hazards at sawmills in the Trang Province, located in southern Thailand. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study which included a walk-through survey, JSA, occupational risk...

Two kinds of creosote have been found based on historical evidence of the medicinal uses and origins. One is wood creosote, and distillate of wood-tar containing guaiacol and creosol. The other type of creosote is coal-tar creosote, obtained from coal-tar, containing naphthalene and anthracene as the major constituents. Wood creosote was prepared for the first time in Germany in 1830 and was us...

This research was conducted in the west forest of Guilan, northern Iran. Data from various harvesting methods for 20 years were collected. Results showed that, productivity rate of round wood, pulp wood and fuel wood has had an upward trend, while rate of traditional products (lumber, sawn wood, charcoal, etc.) has had a downward trend. Production cost has been investigated in this research. Th...