[Trawl-fishing: assessment of accidents at the largest Italian marine].
Fishing is a work with high accidents risk. The results of European Community Safety Commission show that in the fishermans the fatal injures are highest than in the manufacturing factory. The authors report the data of working accidents in the fishermans of Mazara del Vallo during the years 1989-98. The study shows 1. an increase the number of accidents in the last years with high incidence of accidents in the extracommunity population of fisherman, 2. the most incidence of injures is concentrated on arms.


CONCLUSIONS
the authors shows that the working organization and the mediocre vocational training are the most reason of the accidents.
Giorgianni
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Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, Fac. Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Messina.
Bondì
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Dugo
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Barbaro Martino
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Abbate
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D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005398:Fisheries; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy