Ugur Demir, Mahmut Asirdizer, Erhan Kartal, Yasin Etli, Yavuz Hekimoglu
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Abstract
The aims of this study were to compare the incidence of occupational accidents during one-year periods of the COVID-19 Pandemic and before the COVID-19 Pandemic, and to determine in which sectors occupational accidents occurred and what types of injuries were sustained in the population of Tokat, Turkey. A retrospective review was made of the records of Tokat State Hospital of patients injured in occupational accidents between 12.03.2019 and 11.03.2021. The patients injured in occupational accidents were classified according to age, gender, sector, accident type, trauma localization and type, time of the accident, and outcome of the injuries. Of 608 patients injured in occupational accidents, 384 (63.2%) were injured in the period before the pandemic and 224 (36.8%) were injured in the period during the pandemic (p < 0.001). Most work-related injuries occurred in the industry sector (n = 287; 47.2%; p < 0.001). Occupational accidents increased in the service sector (p < 0.001), but decreased in other sectors. The increase in occupational accidents in the health sector (p < 0.001) and transportation sector (p < 0.05) within the service sector caused a general increase despite the decrease in other service sectors (p > 0.05). In current study, the increase in the number of injuries in the transportation sector due to the increase of motor courier accidents, in health sector, and in pandemic quarantines were remarkable. It was evaluated that this narrow-scoped study pioneered comprehensive studies on the measures that can be taken to prevent occupational accidents in such pandemics in the future.
本研究的目的是比较2019冠状病毒病大流行期间和2019冠状病毒病大流行之前一年的职业事故发生率，并确定土耳其Tokat人口中哪些部门发生了职业事故以及遭受了哪些类型的伤害。对2019年3月12日至2021年3月11日期间托卡特州立医院职业事故受伤患者的记录进行回顾性审查。按年龄、性别、行业、工伤类型、创伤部位及类型、工伤时间、损伤结局等对工伤患者进行分类。608例职业事故中，大流行前工伤384例(63.2%)，大流行期间工伤224例(36.8%)(p p p p p > 0.05)。在目前的研究中，由于汽车快递事故的增加，交通部门，卫生部门和流行病隔离的伤害人数的增加是显著的。据评价，这项范围狭窄的研究开创了全面研究的先机，探讨今后可采取哪些措施防止此类流行病造成的职业事故。
期刊介绍：
Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health , originally founded in 1919 as the Journal of Industrial Hygiene, and perhaps most well-known as the Archives of Environmental Health, reports, integrates, and consolidates the latest research, both nationally and internationally, from fields germane to environmental health, including epidemiology, toxicology, exposure assessment, modeling and biostatistics, risk science and biochemistry. Publishing new research based on the most rigorous methods and discussion to put this work in perspective for public health, public policy, and sustainability, the Archives addresses such topics of current concern as health significance of chemical exposure, toxic waste, new and old energy technologies, industrial processes, and the environmental causation of disease such as neurotoxicity, birth defects, cancer, and chronic degenerative diseases. For more than 90 years, this noted journal has provided objective documentation of the effects of environmental agents on human and, in some cases, animal populations and information of practical importance on which decisions are based.
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