[Biomechanical risk for the upper limbs: experience at a factory of feeding electric cables].
Cumulative trauma disorders are found more and more frequently in working environments. Our examination concerns a factory of feeding electric cables, whose workers were subjected to a sanitary checking in 2001, 2002, 2003. The valuation of the risk due to a biomechanical overload of the upper limbs, carried out according to the OCRA method, pointed out, with reference to the specific task of pressing, a middle-high grade of exposure, while the clinical-instrumental results showed symptoms and objective signs of suffering on the median nerve of the wrist with regard to a significant percentage of workers. The following interventions on the production cycle and on the exposure times obtained a reduction of the risk with a subsequent decrease of the noticed troubles.
Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, Università degli Studi di Genova.
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D001132:Arm; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D008420:Manufactured Materials; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012307:Risk Factors