Scenario Analyses of Finger Injuries in Industrial Accidents

Injuries to fingers accounted for the highest proportion of injuries (17%) during a five year period in a large petro-chemical manufacturing complex. The injuries occurred most frequently for those jobs that involve manipulating tools, machinery, and materials. Scenario analyses carried out on the 1223 finger injuries indicated that the most common prior activities were assembling or disassembling equipment (32%) and materials handling (28%), accident events were impact with an object (40%) or a tool that slipped or missed the workpiece (27%), and injury events were being caught between objects (25%), being hit by moving objects (19%), or being cut by objects (13%). Some suggestions for interventions follow from these patterns.

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Scenario Analyses of Back Injuries in Industrial Accidents

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193128402800519 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 28 (5) ◽

pp. 471-475 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kenneth R. Laughery ◽

John K. Schmidt

Keyword(s):

Direct Result ◽

Industrial Accidents ◽

Back Injuries ◽

Injury Rates ◽

Materials Handling ◽

Scenario Analyses ◽

Chemical Manufacturing ◽

Common Task ◽

Age And Sex ◽

Significant Factors

Scenario analyses were carried out on 229 back injuries occuring over two years in a large petro-chemical manufacturing complex. The patterns indicated that most injuries were a direct result of overexertion in performing a task. Materials handling was the most common task, accounting for 35% of the cases. Two other tasks also accounted for a substantial number of injuries: operating a valve (17%) and assembling or disassembling equipment (18%). A much less common but noteworthy set of scenarios indicated that many back injuries occur in situations where unexpected movement in the person-equipment interface takes place. Age and sex were not significant factors in back injury rates. A higher proportion of injuries were major (OSHA recordable) than is usually found for industrial accidents in general.

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Scenario analyses of back injuries in industrial accidents

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e574212012-019 ◽

1984 ◽

Author(s):

Kenneth R. Laughery ◽

John K. Schmidt

Keyword(s):

Industrial Accidents ◽

Back Injuries ◽

Scenario Analyses

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Reducing Manual Materials Handling in Underground Coal Mining with Mechanical-Assist Devices

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193128703100416 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 457-461

Author(s):

Thomas G. Bobick ◽

Richard L. Unger ◽

Ernest J. Conway

Keyword(s):

Coal Mining ◽

Industrial Accidents ◽

Underground Coal Mining ◽

Manual Lifting ◽

Assist Devices ◽

Materials Handling ◽

Manual Materials Handling ◽

Underground Coal Mines ◽

Manual Handling ◽

Mechanical Assist

Historically, manual handling of materials has consistently accounted for over 25 pct of all industrial accidents. In underground coal mining, the situation is worse. Materials-handling accidents routinely account for 30 to 35 pct of all lost-time injuries. Research sponsored by the Bureau of Mines, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, and conducted by Essex/Canyon Research, Inc., developed and evaluated several mechanical-assist devices to reduce the manual effort and the corresponding risk of injury from handling supplies and equipment in underground coal mines. The prototype devices were supplied to cooperating coal mining companies for evaluation. On-site visits, task analyses, and interviews were used to evaluate the devices. Three of them performed exceptionally well and have shown promise for reducing the amount of manual lifting and handling required underground.

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A GIS-Based AHP Approach for Emergency Warehouse Site Selection: A Case Close to Turkey-Syria Border

Journal of Engineering Research ◽

10.36909/jer.10635 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Cihan ÇETİNKAYA ◽

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Eren ÖZCEYLAN ◽

İlhan KESER ◽

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Keyword(s):

Site Selection ◽

Selection Criteria ◽

Real Life ◽

Geographical Information ◽

Industrial Accidents ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Border City ◽

Scenario Analyses ◽

Hybrid Solution ◽

Hierarchy Process

Although the term “disaster” includes natural events like earthquake, flood and drought, it also covers; the wars, intense migration waves, industrial accidents and even epidemic diseases. In recent years, the number and severity of both natural and man-made disasters has been increasing. In this context Gaziantep –the border city of Turkey to Syria- is facing many logistical problems because of the crisis in the region that has a broad repercussion in press. In addition, the corona virus pandemic increased the supply traffic in the region. The region is in need for many emergency warehouses to store the emergency supplies and send to the needy. Thus, a three step hybrid solution method is developed to solve this real life problem. The first stage is the determination of selection criteria; secondly the spatial database is created by using a Geographical Information System (GIS). Then, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique is applied to assign the importance levels to the selection criteria to generate the suitability map to choose the most appropriate emergency warehouse site selection in Gaziantep. Additionally, scenario analyses are conducted to understand the effects of importance levels on the problem results. As a result, 1.3% of the study area is determined as “quite suitable” for establishing an emergency warehouse.

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