Assessment of Occupational Accidents Pattern in Iranian Miners

Abstract Background: Occupational injury involves thousands workers worldwide especially in developing countries every years that could lead to workers disability and costly events for industrial cycle of the country. Thus, the aim of this study was to demonstrate status of work injuries and main pattern of work related trauma. Methods: All documents of the miners who had documented between 2003 and 2009 were assessed, and work related injuries were recorded. Demographic data, pattern of trauma were obtained and distributions of the patterns were addressed among age subgroups. Results: According to the result, work related injuries of kicked and contusions were the most common types of accidents. All types of fractures were in second position among other patterns. Age could not variant the rate of pattern in a descriptive view. Conclusion: The results in agreement with were same results from the other researches. This study evaluated trauma patterns in more prescribe than the other same researches.