title: Analyses of non-fatal accidents in an opencast mine by logistic regression model - a case study.
abstract: Accidents cause major damage for both workers and enterprises in the mining industry. To reduce the number of occupational accidents, these incidents should be properly registered and carefully analysed. This study efficiently examines the Aegean Lignite Enterprise (ELI) of Turkish Coal Enterprises (TKI) in Soma between 2006 and 2011, and opencast coal mine occupational accident records were used for statistical analyses. A total of 231 occupational accidents were analysed for this study. The accident records were categorized into seven groups: area, reason, occupation, part of body, age, shift hour and lost days. The SPSS package program was used in this study for logistic regression analyses, which predicted the probability of accidents resulting in greater or less than 3 lost workdays for non-fatal injuries. Social facilities-area of surface installations, workshops and opencast mining areas are the areas with the highest probability for accidents with greater than 3 lost workdays for non-fatal injuries, while the reasons with the highest probability for these types of accidents are transporting and manual handling. Additionally, the model was tested for such reported accidents that occurred in 2012 for the ELI in Soma and estimated the probability of exposure to accidents with lost workdays correctly by 70%.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Mining Engineering , Eskişehir Osmangazi University , Eskisehir , Turkey.
authors.forename: Seyhan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Onder
authors.affiliation: b Department of Mining Engineering , Aksaray University , Aksaray , Turkey.
authors.forename: Mert
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mutlu
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003032:Coal Mining / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D005121:Extremities / Q000293:injuries; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D060051:Occupational Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D009790:Occupations / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011336:Probability; D012307:Risk Factors; D017751:Safety Management; D000073577:Shift Work Schedule / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D060726:Torso / Q000293:injuries; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D017132:Workplace / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: accident analysis; logistic regression; opencast coal mining