Analysis of the Nonfatal Industrial Accidents in Orthopedic Field: (1) The Epidemiological Surgery

Recently, the industrial accident is one of the most important factors in the causes of death and compensable nonfatal injuries in both developed and developing countries. The authors intended on trial of analysis upon 110 patients of nonfatal industrial accident treated at orthopedic department of National Medical Center from 1969 to the end of 1973, and found several unsuspected results. 1) They were composed of 103 male and 7 female patients whose age distribution was ranged from 15 to 54 years, and those of under 30 years covered more than a half of incidence. 2) The injuries were supposed to be prevalent among the unskilled young man. However it was obviously more frequent in incidence among the skillful ones (more than 2 years of career). 3) 75% of the injured were satisfying with their occupations and rest of them were discontinent due chiefly to low wages and/or lack of future. 4) The lighting and noise are also one of the important factors to induce the accident but the accident were more frequent at good lighting and calm places. 5) 30% of injuries developed at unstable psychologic states due chiefly to overwork, being drunken or trouble with colleagues or family. 6) The exposure to accident were more prevalent around the work-beginning and workfinishing time. 7) Allegedly 58% of the injured exposed to injury in attention-distracted satus due to defected equipments. 8) Machine handlers are apt to get injury 9) The injuries located on the hands in 32%. lower extremities in 27% and trunk in 16% in order. 10) 72% of patients had been working more than 8 hours per day, and moreover, 21% were more than 12 hours per day.