The epidemiology and re-employment outcomes of 467 workers with industrial injuries.
OBJECTIVE
To describe the epidemiology and re-employment outcomes of employees with industrial injuries and provide further information for the prevention of industrial injuries and work rehabilitation with the purpose of lower injury rate and cost savings.


METHODS
Learn about epidemiology and re-employment status by investigating 467 employees separately when in hospital and half a year after leaving hospital. The investigation form is designed according to the Classification Criterion of Employee's Casualty Accident (UDC658.382 GB6441-86) and local industrial injury status.


RESULTS
Employees with industrial injuries have obvious regional characteristics in aspects such as sex composition, age, position of injury, injury causes, injury type, and vocation before suffering injury, level of education, degree of disability, employment wishes, and actual employment status.


CONCLUSIONS
Industrial injury presents obvious characteristics in epidemiology. Therefore, it should take respective characteristics into consideration when conducting prevention of industrial injury and work rehabilitation.
Li
Kuicheng
K
Guangdong Provincial Work Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Guangzhou, China. kuichengli@163.com
Tang
Dan
D
Xu
Yanwen
Y
Lu
Xunwen
X
D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000328:Adult; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation