Occupational Eye Injuries in Finland

  • Parvi, V.;
  • Saari, K. M.
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AUTHOR ABSTRACT

In Finland 11.9% of all industrial accidents in 1973 were eye injuries including superficial eye injuries (79.2%), ultraviolet burns of the cornea (3.9%), eye burns (3.6%), blunt ocular trauma (2.5%), wounds (2.4%), and post-traumatic infections (5.8%). Eye injuries constituted 34.3% of all industrial accidents which needed only ambulatory treatment and 17.5% of all industrial accidents causing an absence for 1-2 days. In 1981 2.1% of all compensated industrial accidents (incapacity for work 3 days or more) were eye injuries. Most compensated eye injuries occurred in manufacturing and in construction work (80.4%) and 8.5% occurred in agriculture. The annual incidence rates of compensated accidents to the eyes (accidents x 1 000/number of employees) were highest in several branches of metal industry (4.96--6.88), excavating and foundation work (6.88), and in logging (5.64). Compensated eye injuries were caused by machines (32.8%), hand tools (25.6%), other equipment and constructions (4.8%), work environment (23.6%), chemical substances (10.8%), and other accidents

JOURNAL AND NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE ID#

JOURNAL: Acta Ophthalmol Suppl (Copenh). 1984; 161: 17-28.

Note: Acta Ophthalmologica. Supplementum. (2.3%).

NLOM ID#: 84227207 .

Publication #: 84227207

This document was extracted from the CDC-NIOSH Epidemiology of Farm Related Injuries: Bibliography With Abstracts, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

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