Welding related occupational eye injuries: a narrative analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the activities and circumstances proximal to a welding related occupational eye injury, a hybrid narrative coding approach derived from two well developed classification systems was developed to categorize and describe the activity, initiating process, mechanism of injury, object and/or substance, and the use of protective eyewear from the narrative text data reported for each injury.

Methods

Routinely collected workers' compensation claims over a one year period (2000) were analyzed from a large US insurance provider. An index term search algorithm of occupation, incident, and injury description fields identified 2209 potential welding related eye injury claims. After detailed review of these claims, 1353 welders and 822 non-welders were analyzed.

SUBMITTER: Lombardi DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1730216 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature