Background: Construction work (building houses, roads, workplaces, and repairing and maintaining infrastructures) is a dangerous land-based job. This includes many hazardous tasks and conditions such as working at the following conditions: Height, excavation, noise, dust, power tools and equipment. Construction work has been increased in developed and underdeveloped countries over the past few ...

Although child labor laws are designed to protect youth from serious injury in the workplace, there are a number of other factors that influence the effectiveness of occupational injury prevention including adolescent risk perception, failure to understand worker rights, and lack of experience. The growing adolescent Hispanic population in the U.S. is of particular concern because cultural and ...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to assess the nature of association between job stress and occupational injuries among firefighters in Korea. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING We conducted a nationwide survey using self-reported questionnaires in South Korea. PARTICIPANTS A survey was conducted among 30 630 firefighters; 25 616 (83.6%) responded. Our study included firefighters who were 20-59 year...

To determine if the contribution of slipperiness to occupational slip, trip and fall (STF)-related injuries could be isolated from injury surveillance systems in the USA, the UK and Sweden, six governmental systems and one industrial system were consulted. The systems varied in their capture approaches and the degree of documentation of exposure to slipping. The burden of STF-related occupation...

A 50-year-old man was the victim of an accidental arrow shooting while hunting. The arrow entered his posterolateral neck and came to rest in the space between the C1/C2 vertebrae in his cervical spine. He was able to maintain his own cervical immobilization. His hunting partners drove him to meet emergency medical technicians, who stabilized the arrow shaft, transferred him to a backboard and ...

Aging is one of the predisposing conditions to develop mycotic nails [1-3], those often present chronic health problems such as diabetes peripheral circulation In fact in the elderly [3,4], the normal structure of the nail is altered producing changes in the color, thickness, flexibility, and shape resulting in some cases to marked dystrophic disturbances, mainly on the toenails. Since most of ...

OBJECTIVE To describe bauxite mining and alumina refining processes and to outline the relevant physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic, and psychosocial health risks. METHODS Review article. RESULTS The most important risks relate to noise, ergonomics, trauma, and caustic soda splashes of the skin/eyes. Other risks of note relate to fatigue, heat, and solar ultraviolet and for some opera...

BACKGROUND A previous review showed that high stress increases the risk of occupational injury by three- to five-fold. However, most of the prior studies have relied on short follow-ups. In this prospective cohort study we examined the effect of stress on recorded hospitalised injuries in an 8-year follow-up. METHODS A total of 16,385 employees of a Finnish forest company responded to the que...

OBJECTIVE Many state trauma registries contain work-related information but are underutilized for occupational injury research/surveillance. We assessed three methods of identifying work-related injuries in the Washington State Trauma Registry (WTR). METHODS State-designated trauma facilities report traumatic injuries meeting specific inclusion criteria to the WTR. The WTR reports from 1998 t...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence and impact of recurrent workplace injury and disease over the period 1995-2008. DESIGN Population-based cohort study using data from the state workers' compensation system database. SETTING State of Victoria, Australia. PARTICIPANTS A total of 448 868 workers with an accepted workers' compensation claim between 1 January 1995 and 31 December 2008 were ...