Work-related injuries in young workers: an Italian multicentric epidemiological survey.
Emergency departments records from 33 hospitals were reviewed to disclose work-related injuries occurred in teen-subjects living in 14 Italian cities. During January-June 2000, 317 work-related injuries were reported. Male subjects, 17 year old, working in the industrial field, resulted the most affected, probably due to the fact that among young workers this sex and age class is the most represented one. Cluster analysis identified two groups of work-related injuries: one includes mainly transportation injuries causing lower extremities or multiple body sites traumas. The other is more strictly related to specific working tasks and includes mostly traumas and cut wounds in hand/wrist and head, together with eye lesions. A more intensive supervision on the use of protective equipment, a more appropriate training in hazard recognition and safe work practices, including operation of vehicles in the work site, must be implemented to reduce work-related injuries.
Aggazzotti
Gabriella
G
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. g.aggazzotti@unimore.it
Righi
Elena
E
Patorno
Elisabetta
E
Fantuzzi
Guglielmina
G
Fabiani
Leila
L
Giuliani
Anna Rita
AR
Grappasonni
Iolanda
I
Petrelli
Fabio
F
Ricciardi
Walter
W
La Torre
Giuseppe
G
Sciacca
Salvatore
S
Angelillo
Italo
I
Bianco
Aida
A
Nobile
Carmelo
C
Gregorio
Pasquale
P
Lupi
Silvia
S
Perlangeli
Vincenza
V
Bonazzi
Chiara
C
Laviola
Francesco
F
Triassi
Maria
M
Iorfida
Evelina
E
Montegrosso
Sara
S
Rivosecchi
Paola
P
Serra
Maria Cristina
MC
Adorisio
Eugenio
E
Gramiccia
Alessandra
A
Mura
Ida
I
Castiglia
Paolo
P
Romano
Gabriele
G
Poli
Albino
A
Tardivo
Stefano
S
D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology*