BACKGROUND Pelvic fracture is one of the major injuries that lead to death in patients who sustain high-impact injuries such as road traffic accidents and falls from height. AIMS This study aims to look at the epidemiology and the significant predictors of mortality in victims with pelvic fracture presenting to the emergency department (ED) of an urban Asian city. METHODS This was a retrosp...

In 2000, the accident rate for escalator riding was about 0.815 accidents per million passenger trips through Taipei Metro Rapid Transit (MRT) heavy capacity stations. In order to reduce the probability and severity of escalator riding accidents and enhance the safety of passengers, the Drury and Brill model [Drury, C.G., Brill, M., 1983. Human factors in consumer product accident investigation...

objective: to determine the patterns,complications and casualties of road traffic accidents in north west of iran during 2013 new year holidays. m e t h od s : one hundred and eighty one patients with trauma-related vehicle crashes were investigated in a cross sectional-descriptive study. we only included those road traffic accidents which were recorded during the 2013 iranian new year holidays...

Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability in childhood. A retrospective study of all paediatric head injuries admitted to the neurosurgical unit for the West of Scotland over a 10-year period was performed to assess the impact of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence head injury guidelines on the admission rate and to determine the associated risk fac...

in industries, in general, occurrence of accidents is not negligible in which injure the workforce and burden cost to society. the main purpose of this study was investigation of industrial accidents and their trend in fars province. this is a descriptive analytical retrospective study in which data on industrial accidents were collected from the labor organization of fars province during years...

Quantifying or, more generally, estimating the severity of the possible consequences of occupational accidents is a decisive step in any occupational risk assessment process. Because of the lack of historic information (accident data collection and recording are incipient and insufficient, particularly in construction) and the lack of practical tools in the construction industry, the estimation...

Evidence from 32 studies that have evaluated the safety effects of median barriers, guardrails along the edge of the road, and crash cushions (impact attenuators) is summarized by means of a meta-analysis. Two hundred and thirty-two (232) estimates of safety effects are included in the meta-analysis. The presence of publication bias is tested by means of the funnel graph method. For most subset...

The article addresses the topic of road safety. reduction accident injuries and fatalities fits in with Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals. objective research was to assess accidents caused by voivodships. analysis took account socio-economic differences voivodships, which determine unit costs injuries. A descriptive is given show dynamics changes years 2014-2021 voivodships how differen...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to investigate the characteristics of occupational accidents and frequency and severity of work related accidents in the construction industry among Iranian insured workers during the years 20072011. METHODS The Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) accident database containing 21,864 cases between the years 2007-2011 was applied in this study. In the ...