title: Relationships of job hazards, lack of knowledge, alcohol use, health status and risk taking behavior to work injury of coal miners: a case-control study in India.
abstract: Objective is to assess the relationships of job hazards, individual characteristics, and risk taking behavior to occupational injuries of coal miners. This case-control study compared 245 male underground coal miners with injury during the previous two-year period with 330 matched controls without injury during the previous five years. Data were collected via face-to-face interview and analyzed using the conditional logistic model. Handling material, poor environmental/working conditions, and geological/strata control- related hazards were the main risk factors: adjusted ORs 5.15 (95% CI 2.42-10.9), 2.40 (95% CI 1.29-4.47), and 2.25 (95% CI 1.24-4.07) respectively. Their roles were higher among the face-workers than among the non-face-workers. No formal education, alcohol consumption, disease, big-family, and risk-taking behavior were associated with injuries (2.36</=ORs</=10.35), and the findings were similar for both face and non-face workers. Prevention should focus on handling material, poor environmental condition, especially addressing workers with no formal education, alcohol consumption, disease, big family size, and risk-taking behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
authors.forename: Bijay Mihir
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Kunar
authors.forename: Ashis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhattacherjee
authors.forename: Nearkasen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chau
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003032:Coal Mining / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004522:Educational Status; D005191:Family Characteristics; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012907:Smoking; D000078329:Workforce; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology