Injury analysis of mine workers: A case study

Abstract

Stress is an important aspect that governs the performance and safety of the worker. The presence of high mental and physical stresses may cause inefficient performance and also unsafe operations. There is a dearth of literature studying the impact of worker stress on worker performance and injuries. In this study, worker injury characteristics have been studied based on the worker individual stress factors like age, Body mass index (BMI), sleep hours, chronic disease, daughter's marriage, child's education, family dependency and workplace factors like type of work and perception of maximum injury shift. The results reveal that workers involving in different tasks experience injuries differently. Old age workers are facing comparatively more injuries than younger's. Workers taking insufficient sleep are more prone to injuries especially scraping and puncture type injuries. © 2017 IEEE.