title: Occupational eye injuries in Finland.
abstract: In Finland 11.9% of all industrial accidents in 1973 were eye injuries including superficial eye injuries (79.2%), ultraviolet burns of the cornea (3.9%), eye burns (3.6%), blunt ocular trauma (2,5%), wounds (2.4%), and post-traumatic infections (5.8%). Eye injuries constituted 34.3% of all industrial accidents which needed only ambulatory treatment and 17.5% of all industrial accidents causing an absence for 1-2 days. In 1981 2.1% of all compensated industrial accidents (incapacity for work 3 days or more) were eye injuries. Most compensated eye injuries occurred in manufacturing and in construction work (80.4%) and 8.5% occurred in agriculture. The annual incidence rates of compensated accidents to the eyes (accidents X 1 000/number of employees) were highest in several branches of metal industry (4.96-6.88), excavating and foundation work (6.88), and in logging (5.64). Compensated eye injuries were caused by machines (32.8%), hand tools (25.6%), other equipment and constructions (4.8%), work environment (23.6%), chemical substances (10.8%), and other accidents (2.3%).
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology; D002057:Burns, Chemical / Q000453:epidemiology; D005126:Eye Burns / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male