[Traumatism among the personnel of fishing boats].

The purpose of the study was to analyze accident rates on board the ships of the North Basin Fish Fleet along with the data on surgical interventions during a 10-year period. High accident rates among the members of the deck crew were caused by intensive working conditions characterized by cargo moving, monitoring operations, insufficient lighting of the deck and different mechanisms. Such kinds of work as maintenance and repair of the mechanisms in the machine room, trawling, fishing and fish processing were regarded as highly traumatic. Hand trauma is an occupational injury in sailors because of the great amount of manual labor on board the ships. It was pointed out that control of nonoccupational accidents and alcohol abuse among sailors was also of great importance.