Department of Civil Engineering, University of Burgos, c/Villadiego s/n, 09001 Burgos, Spain.
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Burgos, Avda. Cantabria s/n, 09006 Burgos, Spain.
Biomed Res Int. 2018 Dec 24;2018:2451313. doi: 10.1155/2018/2451313. eCollection 2018.
Occupational accidents in the construction sector are analyzed in this study of the relation between the age of the injured worker, days off work due to the injury, and accident severity. A further aim is to establish whether accumulated fatigue during the working day and throughout the week has a similar effect on all workers, regardless of age. A total of three million four hundred and thirty-eight thousand, one hundred and forty-five (3,438,145) accidents are analyzed in this study; the total of all accidents are notified in Spain by workers from the sector over the period 1996-2015. The results confirmed a direct link between worker age and both days off work due to the injury and accident severity. They also confirmed that the workers injured in accidents in the afternoon hours were older than the workers injured in the morning hours. In consequence, the average number of days off work due to injury following an accident of the older workers was also larger and the accidents are more severe. Likewise, the workers injured on a Friday were of an older average age than those injured on a Monday. In consequence, the average number of days off work due to injury on the last day of the week was also higher and the accidents were of more severity. All the above-mentioned differences were statistically significant.
本研究分析了建筑行业职业事故与受伤工人年龄、因伤缺勤天数和事故严重程度之间的关系。另一个目的是确定在工作日和整个星期内积累的疲劳是否对所有工人,无论年龄大小,都有类似的影响。在这项研究中分析了总共三百四十三万八千一百四十五(3,438,145)起事故;这些事故是西班牙在 1996 年至 2015 年期间由该行业的工人报告的所有事故的总数。结果证实了工人年龄与因伤缺勤天数和事故严重程度之间的直接联系。他们还证实,在下午发生事故的工人比在上午发生事故的工人年龄大。因此,受伤工人在事故后因伤缺勤的平均天数也更大,事故也更严重。同样,在周五受伤的工人的平均年龄也比在周一受伤的工人大。因此,在一周的最后一天因伤缺勤的平均天数也更高,事故也更严重。所有上述差异均具有统计学意义。