Zagórski J, Swiadro J
Med Pr. 1979;30(3):201-6.
The paper presents an evaluation of spinal pain syndrome prevalence in miners of a Mining Industry Corporation, employing 45 thous of manual workers. The observed population included 34.487 underground workers, and 9.507 surface workers. The distribution of workplaces was based on the degree of the spine load. The number of examined sick workers during one year amounted to 1.600. The authors noted, that the morbidity among underground workers with considerably loaded spine is 1/3 higher and they begin to complain about 5 years earlier than surface workers -- which obviously results from the type and environment of the work. On the other hand no difference was found in the morbidity between underground and surface workers engaged in the work with a middle load of spine, because the type of work is similar in this case and the effects of environment are not significant.
该论文对一家矿业公司的矿工脊柱疼痛综合征患病率进行了评估，该公司雇佣了4.5万名体力劳动者。观察对象包括34487名地下矿工和9507名地面工人。工作场所的分布基于脊柱负荷程度。一年内接受检查的患病工人数量为1600人。作者指出，脊柱负荷相当大的地下矿工的发病率高出三分之一，而且他们开始出现症状的时间比地面工人早5年——这显然是由工作类型和环境导致的。另一方面，从事脊柱中等负荷工作的地下和地面工人在发病率上没有差异，因为在这种情况下工作类型相似，环境影响不显著。
