Citation

Laughery KR, Vaubel KP. Int. J. Ind. Ergonomics 1993; 12(4): 273-279.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

A database containing accident records from a large petrochemical refining complex was employed to test the hypothesis that similar circumstances are associated with incidents that result in major and minor injuries. Results indicated a great deal of similarity for both major and minor accidents and across jobs. Several dimensions or characteristics of the accidents were examined including the kinds of activities employees were engaged in prior to the accident, the sequence of events preceding the injury, the nature of the injury sustained and the parts of the body that were injured. In addition to providing support for the notion that the conditions giving rise to major- and minor-injury accidents are similar, these findings extend previous work by demonstrating that such similarities hold across jobs.