تويت
The industrialization process has brought a large number of problems; one of them is related to industrial accidents. With advances in industrial processes, new type of dangers to life, limb and health are being increasingly introduced. Everyday employees are injured in factories due to accidents. The accidents may be caused as a result on any kind of unsafe activity, or act in their part or chance occurrences, or as a result of some unsafe working conditions or unsafe act of employees themselves, or defective plant or shop layout. The pain and suffering of the injured as well as the emotional loss to the victims of the accidents causing permanent disabilities are impossible to be summed up and evaluated.
What’s the definition of accident?
The most agreed definition of accident is “It is an unplanned and uncontrolled event which causes or is likely to cause an injury”.
Types of accidents in industry
Accidents in industry can be classified using different criteria. Specific classifications are shown in the next lines.
According to causes of events
Machine accidents
Machines are responsible for a large number of accidents in an industry. Depending on the way harm is caused, accidents from machines can be classified into the following groups:
· Contact: physical contact of the body with any moving part of a machine;
· Impact: parts of the body are violently hit by moving parts of machines;
· Traps: parts of the body coming between the moving parts which mostly lead to crushing of parts of body trapped;
· Ejection of particles: parts projected at high velocity from the machine, which causes serious injury when they hit the parts of the moving body.
Non machine accidents
In this type we include:
Fall of persons which can be due to
· Tripping over obstacles on ground
· Slipping due to oily or greasy substances
· Running inside the shop, sudden fear or excitement
Fall from a height which can be due to
· Lack of firm foot hold or unsafe postures
· Working on a machine at a height
· Leaning from ladder to reach a distant object
· Strike against the objects
· Pushes by other persons on the slop
According to length of recovery
· Lost time accidents: lost time accidents are those in which worker loses a day or shift in which accident occurred. These require payment of compensation to employee to employer.
· Home-case accidents: in this type of accidents, worker loses the remainder of shift or turn on which the accident has occurred.
· First aid cases: in these, workers receive first aid attention at plant hospital and then returns to their job.
According to nature of injury
· Fatal accidents: in which the worker or more are killed.
· Permanent disablement: which incapacitate an employee and makes it impossible for him to engage in any work, which was capable of performing at the time of the accident.
· Temporary disablement: this reduces the earning capacity of an individual in the employment.
