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KMID : 0376219870240020237
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Chonnam Medical Journal
1987 Volume.24 No. 2 p.237 ~ p.249
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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY ON INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT VICTIMS IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
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Abstract
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The author has performed a cross analysis on 1,244 victims in accidents of construction industry in a local area in a year, about their occupations, employed durations, times of accident, injuries and treatments, and reviewed the problems in Industrial Safety and Health Low.
The summary was as followed.
1. The higher incidence rate of accident in construction industry than overall industries was recognized and the higher severity rate was predicted too. So the size standard of establishments obligated to adopt Safety Control Personnel in construction industry must be changed from "number of regular workers" to "scale of expense for construction" for reinforcing prevention of accidents.
2. The incidence of patients of overall occupation in winter was lower significantly than other seasons, and those of Pipe Fitters and Reinforcing Metal Workers in autumn were higher than overall occupations. The fact makes the author to predict the higher seasonal turnover of workers in construction industry especially in the occupations.
3. The patients with employed duration less than 1 month occupied 44% and those less than 1 year occupied 91 % of all patients.
4. The most frequent region injured was head and the region requiring the longest therapy was trunk.
5. For the first therapy, the patients have used the private orthopedic clinics most frequently, and the medical institutes with the highest incidence of patients requiring long-term therapy were university hospitals.
6. The occupation with the largest number in total patients and in patients requiring long-term therapy was interior Setter and the one with the highest rates of long term therapy of incidence of disabled and deaths was Scaffold Makers, probably, the most dangerous occupation.
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