Jeong B Y
Department of Industrial Engineering, Hansung University, Seoul, South Korea.
Appl Ergon. 1998 Oct;29(5):355-60. doi: 10.1016/s0003-6870(97)00077-x.
This study concerned with the characteristics of occupational deaths and injuries in the construction industry of South Korea. The national statistics of industrial accidents in the years 1991-1994 were extracted from the annual publications of the Ministry of Labor. These data were analyzed in terms of the size of company, age of injured person, work experience, accident type, injury type, injured part of body, and agency of accident. The results show that there are some patterns in the characteristics of occupational injuries of construction industry: (1) deaths occur more frequently in the older workers; (2) the most common type of accident is 'falls from a height'; (3) 'fracture' is the leading injury type; (4) the body sites most vulnerable to injury are the leg, foot and toe in the non-fatal injuries, while the head, face, and neck in deaths; (5) most of the accidents occurred from the temporary construction or fabric. The results also show that there are differences in accident characteristics between occupational deaths and nonfatal injuries. These findings identified in this study can be used to decide the accident prevention programs.
本研究关注韩国建筑业职业伤亡的特征。1991 - 1994年的全国工业事故统计数据摘自劳动部的年度出版物。这些数据从公司规模、受伤人员年龄、工作经验、事故类型、伤害类型、身体受伤部位以及事故发生机构等方面进行了分析。结果表明，建筑业职业伤害特征存在一些模式：（1）老年工人死亡更为频繁；（2）最常见的事故类型是“高处坠落”；（3）“骨折”是主要伤害类型；（4）非致命伤害中最易受伤的身体部位是腿、脚和脚趾，而死亡事故中是头部、面部和颈部；（5）大多数事故发生在临时建筑或结构物上。结果还表明，职业死亡和非致命伤害的事故特征存在差异。本研究中确定的这些发现可用于制定事故预防计划。
