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Men top list of non-fatal accidents at work
Claims of non-fatal accidents work increased by 5.3% in the second quarter of 2012 when compared to the same period last year.
Accidents in construction decreased by 5% according to the NSO
695 male workers have reported getting injured at their place of work between April and June of this year. On the other hand, 121 female workers reported suffering an accident during the same months.
According to the National Statistics Office, the number of accidents during this period increased by 41. Male victims accounted 85% of the cases.
Between the same period, the Occupational Health and Safety Authority (OHSA) reported that there were two fatal accidents at work, one of them in agriculture and the other in construction. During the same period last year, there was only one fatality at work.
Just under a quarter of non-fatal accidents at work occurred in manufacturing.
Other economic sectors where occurrence of accidents resulted to be very common were construction (17.2 per cent) and transportation and storage (10.9 per cent), NSO reported.
When compared to the corresponding period last year, the number of accidents went up by 10 in manufacturing, but decreased by 5 in construction. The number of accidents in transportation and storage remained unchanged.
Most of the accidents at work during the quarter under review involved persons in elementary occupations and crafts and related trades workers.
In the majority of cases accidents occurred to persons aged 25-34 (25.8 per cent). These were followed by the 35-44 year old age group. Wounds and superficial injuries, and dislocations, strains and sprains were the most common types of injuries, amounting to 378 and 210 cases respectively. In terms of parts of bodies injured, accidents affecting the upper and lower extremities made up 62.2 per cent of all injuries.
Joseph MELI •
It has long been established by more forward thinking countries that there is as such thing as an accident as this automatically implies that no one is culpable-and that this description of events has long been replaced by the word incident.Also what do statistics actually provide?As we need the root cause and solution of these incidents to be made public as if we(especially workers) are aware of the cause of these injuries and fatalities then we may possibly prevent their reoccurrence and unless these reasons are made known we will be condemned to repeat them.
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Equality exists only in cushy jobs. Dangerous work is only done the men. Probably the accident suffered by women was "nail file" injuries :)))))))))))))
