TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - Major and minor injuries at work: Are the circumstances similar or different?
JO  - International journal of industrial ergonomics
A1  - Laughery, Kenneth R.
A1  - Vaubel, KP
SP  - 273
EP  - 279
VL  - 12
IS  - 4
N2  - 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.<p />
LA  - 
SN  - 0169-8141
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -