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Accidents related to the use of products and services in the city of São Luis, Brazil

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: De Souza Dias, Líssia Maria | Diniz, Raimundo Lopes | de Macedo Guimarães, Lia Buarque

Affiliations: Santa Terezinha College – Maranhão – Brazil | Department of Design and Technology, Graduation Program in Health and Environment Federal University of Maranhão – Brazil, [email protected] | Graduate Program in Industrial Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Osvaldo Aranha 99 5° andar, Porto Alegre, RS, 90035-190, Brazil, [email protected]

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Keywords: accidents, product, service, injuries

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0575-3143

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 3143-3147, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

This article presents a study on the accidents related to the use of products and services, as recorded at two emergency hospitals at the city São Luís, Brazil. The goal of the study was to evaluate the main types and causes of unintentional acccidents as well as the more frequent injuries for further improvement of products and services. The study evaluated the victims profile (gender and age), the circumstances (activity, local and time) that lead to the accidents and the type of resulted injury. Non-parametric statistics showed that 83.64% of the accidents were related to products (57.6% of them being consumer products) and 8.6% are related to maintenance services. 57.6% of the victims were children under 15 years old, and 58.4% were male. 50.2% of accidents occurred at home, more often (44.7%) in the afternoon. The most common injuriy was musculoesqueletal (48.6%), 49.0% being cranioencephalic trauma and 15.2% fractures.

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