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Table 2 Characteristics of injuries in hourly production workers at 207 U.S. facilities of a global aluminum company employed between January 1, 1996 and December 31, 2007

From: Piecewise exponential models to assess the influence of job-specific experience on the hazard of acute injury for hourly factory workers

 

Entire cohort

Physical demand cohort

Injury characteristics

Count

Percent

Count

Percent

Injuries

31 456

 

9549

 

Case Category

    

  First Aid

22 748

72.32

6187

64.79

  Medical Treatment

4598

14.62

1861

19.49

  Restricted Work

3585

11.40

1328

13.91

  Lost Work Day

525

1.67

173

1.81

Injury Description

    

Abrasion

2591

8.24

715

7.49

  Burn

4054

12.89

1099

11.51

  Contusion

6983

22.20

2131

22.32

  Foreign body

2270

7.22

625

6.55

  Fracture

940

2.99

334

3.50

  Laceration

5620

17.87

1427

14.94

  Acute musculoskeletal

6283

19.97

2342

24.53

  Other

2696

8.57

875

9.16

  Missing

19

0.06

1

0.01

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