Industrial Injuries among the Urban Population as Recorded in the National Health Survey

Abstract

Aside from establishing for industrial injuries disabling for at least 7 calcndar days but less than 12 mos. (a) an annual frequency rate per 1,000 employees (9.6), (b) annual number of days of disability per employee (one-half day), and (c) avg. days of disability per case (51 days) and estimating for industrial injuries from which the worker had not recovered at the end of 12 mos. an annual frequency rate per 1,000 employees (1.0), there are 6 major findings in this report: (1) The frequency rates of industrial injuries (both in the case of those disabling for at least 7 calcndar days but less than 12 mos. and of those from which the worker had not recovered at the end of 12 mos.) rise with advancing age. (2) The avg. duration of periods of disability resulting from industrial injuries increases directly with the age of the injured worker. (3) The frequency rate of industrial injuries (both in the case of those disabling for at least 7 calcndar days but less than 12 mos. and of those from which the worker had not recovered at the end of 12 mos.) is about 5 times as high for cf workers as for $ workers. (4) The annual frequency rate of industrial injuries among cf manual workers is over 3 times as high as that for nonmanual workers in the case of those injuries disabling for at least 7 calcndar days but less than 12 mos., and is almost 6 times as high in the case of those from which the worker had not recovered at the end of 12 mos. (The variation in exposure or amt. of hazard by sex is not eliminated in this comparison.) (5) An inverse relationship obtains between the frequency rate of industrial injuries and amt. of annual family income. (6) The prevalcnce rate of permanent orthopedic impairments resulting from industrial injuries increases with advancing age, but the increase is due largely to the accumulation over the attained lifetime of the population of the permanent effects of accidental industrial injuries. The rate among cf workers in the industrially effective age groups, 15-64 yrs., is markedly high.