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Manufacturing Case Studies
Published in James P. Kohn, The Ergonomic Casebook, 2020
Upon inspection of the worker’s compensation claims and OSHA 200 logs for a three-year period prior to the year when this study was initiated, it became evident that ergonomic injuries were of concern. Almost 31 percent of all of the occupational injury cases reported were sprains, strains, tendonitis and carpal tunnel injuries/illnesses. Incident frequency and severity data was calculated by job classification, location, task performed at the time of incident, age, gender, and experience/training. During the initial visit to this facility, supervisory and labor personnel were interviewed to assist in pinpointing the locations where the greatest frequency of Ergonomic incidents had occurred. As part of the interview process a medical symptoms survey was also conducted. Based upon the results of these initial activities, two locations became the focus of this project. These two locations were identified as the clear lacquer paint area and the bundling area, locations involving finishing and packaging processes.
Risk Management
Published in Jonathan F. Hutchings, Project Scheduling Handbook, 2003
Whether a case involves an injury or illness is determined by the nature of the original event or exposure that caused the case, not by the resulting condition of the affected employee. Injuries are caused by instantaneous events in the work environment. Cases resulting from anything other than instantaneous events are considered illnesses. This concept of illness includes acute illnesses that result from exposures of relatively short duration. An occupational injury is defined on the back of the log and summary form, OSHA form 200, as follows: “Occupational injury is an injury such as a cut, fracture, sprain, or amputation that results from a work accident or from an exposure involving a single incident in the work environment.” Note. Con-ditions resulting from animal bites, such as insect or snakebites, or from onetime exposure to chemicals are considered to be injuries. A single incident involving an instantaneous exposure to chemicals is classified as an injury.
Injury, Illness, and Disease
Published in Ron C. McKinnon, Cause, Effect, and Control of Accidental Loss with Accident Investigation Kit, 2019
Mark A. Rothstein (1998) gives the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) definition of an occupational injury as: “Any injury such as a cut, fracture, sprain, amputation, etc., which results from a work accident or from exposure in the work environment.” (p. 183)
Comparison of the epidemiology and injury profile among injured patients involved in special purpose vehicle-related incidents in South Korea
Published in Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 2021
Hyun-Seok Chai, Sang-Chul Kim, So-Yeon Kong, Gwan-Jin Park, Ji-Han Lee, Hoon Kim, Seok-Woo Lee, Hae-Ju Lee, Kyoung-Moo Choi
Fatal occupational injury mechanisms include transportation incidents, falls and contact with objects and equipment.3 Heavy machinery (excavator, bulldozer, forklift, etc.) and heavy vehicles (dump truck, tractor) are not intended for carrying passengers or goods on the road, however, they are permitted to drive on the road with a limited speed and time.6,7 Tractor is the leading cause of fatalities during transportation incidents of farmers and farm workers.8–10 Tractors rollover is the main mechanism of fatalities, so Rollover Protective Structure and driver seatbelts are key elements in decreasing fatality from rollover events.9 Forklift can be classified as a truck, and overturning and pedestrian struck by forklift are common incidents that results in severe traumatic occupational injuries involving roads as construction sites.11,12
A comparative study of vocational education and occupational safety and health training in China and the UK
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2018
Baisheng Nie, Xin Huang, Fei Xue, Jiang Chen, Xiaobing Liu, Yangyang Meng, Jinxin Huang
The work safety system is established in the UK based on laws and regulations. Government supervision plays a big role. Priority has been given to the coordination effect among industry associations. Being people oriented, workers consciously maintain work safety through enterprise autonomy and self-discipline [20]. The death toll in industry for the UK has shown a fluctuating decline in recent decades: 133 people were killed in occupational accidents in 2013, including three mining deaths, and the death rate per 100,000 people was 0.44 in this year. The total number of occupational diseases fluctuated during the years 2005–2014. Musculoskeletal injury has been the main occupational injury. Psychological disease due to working stress has shown an increase in recent years [21]. Its incidence and prevalence exceeded that of musculoskeletal injury and disease in 2012 and psychological disease has become the largest occupational disease, as shown in Figures 1 and 2. Figure 2 shows the cumulative occupational disease prevalence, where existing and new cases are included. Confidence intervals represent the range of uncertainty resulting from the estimates being derived from a sampled group of people, not the entire population. They are calculated so that the range has a 95% chance of including the true value in the absence of bias. No self-reported work-related ill-health data collected for years are shown in the figure.