Investigación de accidentes laborales con lesiones de las manos y los dedos: estado Aragua. Venezuela
There are 294 labour accidents investigated with lesions on hands and fingers, with the goal of establishing their characteristics, accidentally economical activities and the real generators causes, the necessary information data provided by the employer, worker or witnesses and the accident investi...
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Instituto de Altos Estudios en Salud Pública "Dr. Arnaldo Gabaldón"
2003
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| Online Access: | https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=2938684 |
| Source: | Salud de los Trabajadores, ISSN 1315-0138, Vol. 11, Nº. 2, 2003, pags. 99-113 |
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There are 294 labour accidents investigated with lesions on hands and fingers, with the goal of establishing their characteristics, accidentally economical activities and the real generators causes, the necessary information data provided by the employer, worker or witnesses and the accident investigation, done by the investigation team, using the facts reconstruction methodology, through ascendant or inductive procedure (cause tree). The recollected data was recorded according to the Venezuelan Normative established. An accidental rate of 31.1 x 100 workers are
established. The 70% of the registered companies are catalogued as High Risk and, in those where 96% the
accidents declared. There were 47.19% incidence of hand and fingers' accidents. The largest rates of accident occurred in Metal mechanic industry followed by the textile one. The 90% of the accidents occurred in workers with age are less than 39, and male (96.3%), whit less than five years in the job (87.2%) and catalogued as "NON qualified workers" (79.8%). In a 100% proportion of the labour accidents cases , the encountered causes were unsafety working conditions, and in 27% of the cases there were established as on unsafety actions and conditions. The accident cause
by mechanic agents involvement, for damages of these were presented in 55.45%, for damage in these in 53.45% and for inadequate protection in 11.90%. The wounds caused by hits or most frequent (64.9%), there were 20 fracture and nine amputation cases. Related to the magnitude of the lesions, one finger affection was presented in a 74% of the cases. There were two cases, in which, workers loose one and both hands. All the workers needed temporal o permanent incapacitation, from which the 21% improved to become a partial permanent incapacitation or total permanent. |
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