| ID (ISN) del documento | 111726 |
| Número CIS |
11-0412 |
| ISSN - Título de la serie |
1545-9624 - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene |
| Año |
2009 |
| Número de serie |
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| Autor(es) |
Lombardi D.A., Matz S., Brennan M.J., Smith G.S., Courtney T.K. |
| Título |
Etiology of work-related electrical injuries: A narrative analysis of workers' compensation claims |
| Información bibliográfica |
Oct. 2009, Vol.6, p.612-623. Illus. 21 ref. |
| Resumen |
The objective of this study was to provide new insight into the aetiology of nonfatal, work-related electrical injuries. A multistage, case-selection algorithm was developed to identify electrical-related injuries from workers' compensation claims and a customized coding taxonomy to identify pre-injury circumstances. Workers' compensation claims routinely collected over a 1-year period from a large United States insurance provider were used to identify electrical-related injuries using an algorithm that evaluated injury cause information, nature of injury, accident description and injury description narratives. Concurrently, a customized coding taxonomy for these narratives was developed to abstract the activity, source, initiating process, mechanism, vector and voltage. Among the 586,567 reported claims during 2002, electrical-related injuries accounted for 1283 (0.22%) of nonfatal claims. Data on these accidents are broken down by sex, age, sector of activity, body part injured, type of activity and source of electricity. |
| Descriptores (primarios) |
Estados Unidos; lesiones corporales; accidentes de trabajo; factores de riesgo; accidentes eléctricos |
| Descriptores (secundarios) |
electricidad; etiología; lugar de la lesión; análisis de las causas del accidente; papel de los aseguradores; reparación de los accidentes de trabajo |
| Tipo de documento |
D - Artículos periódicos |
| Tema(s) |
Electricidad
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Riesgos eléctricos
|
| Navegación por categoria(s) |
Electricidad
Workers' compensation
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