title: Modeling of Individual and Organizational Factors Affecting Traumatic Occupational Injuries Based on the Structural Equation Modeling: A Case Study in Large Construction Industries.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Individual and organizational factors are the factors influencing traumatic occupational injuries.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the present study was the short path analysis of the severity of occupational injuries based on individual and organizational factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  The present cross-sectional analytical study was implemented on traumatic occupational injuries within a ten-year timeframe in 13 large Iranian construction industries. Modeling and data analysis were done using the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach and the IBM SPSS AMOS statistical software version 22.0, respectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean age and working experience of the injured workers were 28.03 ± 5.33 and 4.53 ± 3.82 years, respectively. The portions of construction and installation activities of traumatic occupational injuries were 64.4% and 18.1%, respectively. The SEM findings showed that the individual, organizational and accident type factors significantly were considered as effective factors on occupational injuries' severity (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Path analysis of occupational injuries based on the SEM reveals that individual and organizational factors and their indicator variables are very influential on the severity of traumatic occupational injuries. So, these should be considered to reduce occupational accidents' severity in large construction industries.
authors: Department of Occupational Hygiene Engineering, School of Public Health and Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran.
authors: Iraj
authors: I
authors: Mohammadfam
authors: Department of Occupational Hygiene Engineering, School of Public Health and Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran.
authors: Ahmad
authors: A
authors: Soltanzadeh
authors: Modeling of Non-communicable Disease Research Center, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran.
authors: Abbas
authors: A
authors: Moghimbeigi
authors: Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, Public Health Faculty, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran.
authors: Mehdi
authors: M
authors: Akbarzadeh
keywords: Accident Severity Rate; Construction Industry; Individual and Organizational Factors; Structural Equation Modeling; Traumatic Occupational Injuries