Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.
J Safety Res. 2018 Dec;67:99-106. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2018.09.015. Epub 2018 Oct 5.
In many countries, traditional data sources for collecting injuries of workers covered by compulsory accident insurance have recently been integrated by new observatories whose results may differ. A comparative analysis of the Italian data collection systems related to fatal tractor accidents in agriculture was performed focusing on tractor rollover fatalities with the aim of analyzing the accident scenario.
Data from the Operational Archives of the Italian Workers Compensation Authority (INAIL), which collects injuries of workers covered by compulsory accident insurance and those of the National Surveillance System (INAIL_ASL), which provides narrative text reports of work-related fatal accidents have been analyzed and compared to the information collected by the INAIL Observatory. The INAL Observatory was recently set up to complement the collection of fatal accidents involving agricultural machinery. Italian data were then compared to data available at an international level. Fatal tractor accidents vary considerably with respect to fatal accidents in agriculture, being 10.6 and 43.7% for the Operational Archives and Surveillance System, respectively. National Surveillance System records, implemented with narrative texts allowed the accident scenario to be defined.
71.7% of fatal tractor-related accidents refer to non-ROPS equipped vehicles and of these, 26.5% involved machines originally mounted with a ROPS that had been removed or was inoperative in the folded-down position during the rollover event. Just one fatal event from a collapsed ROPS on the overturned tractor was recorded. It is interesting that 16.6% of fatal accidents involved a clear environmental factor.
A campaign to train tractor drivers on the correct use of the combination ROPS and seatbelt can contribute to decreasing rollover events with fatal outcomes. Contemporarily a strict requirement to install ROPS and a seatbelt on tractors, combined to an official inspection at the farm level, can increase the chance of survival in a rollover accident.
在许多国家，最近整合了新的观测站来收集强制性工伤保险覆盖的工人受伤数据，这些观测站的结果可能有所不同。本文对意大利与农业拖拉机致命事故相关的数据收集系统进行了比较分析，重点是拖拉机翻车事故，旨在分析事故场景。
对意大利工人赔偿局（INAIL）运营档案中的数据进行了分析，该档案收集了强制性工伤保险覆盖的工人受伤数据，以及国家监测系统（INAIL_ASL）的报告，后者提供了与工作相关的致命事故的叙述性文本报告，并将这些数据与 INAIL 观测站收集的数据进行了比较。INAIL 观测站最近成立，旨在补充农业机械致命事故的收集工作。然后，将意大利数据与国际水平的数据进行了比较。与农业致命事故相比，拖拉机致命事故差异很大，运营档案和监测系统分别为 10.6%和 43.7%。国家监测系统的记录采用叙述性文本，可以确定事故场景。
71.7%的致命拖拉机事故涉及未配备 ROPS 的车辆，其中 26.5%涉及最初配备 ROPS 的机器，但在翻车事故中，ROPS 已被拆除或处于折叠位置而无法正常工作。只有一起拖拉机翻车时 ROPS 坍塌导致的致命事件被记录下来。有趣的是，16.6%的致命事故涉及明显的环境因素。
对拖拉机驾驶员进行正确使用 ROPS 和安全带的培训活动，可以减少致命翻车事故的发生。同时，严格要求在拖拉机上安装 ROPS 和安全带，并在农场层面进行官方检查，可以增加在翻车事故中幸存的机会。
