Risk Factors Associated with the Prevalence of Upper and Lower Back Pain in Male Underground Coal Miners in Punjab, Pakistan

Ijaz, Madiha; Akram, Muhammad; Ahmad, Sajid Rashid; Mirza, Kamran; Nadeem, Falaq Ali; Thygerson, Steven M.

doi:10.3390/ijerph17114102

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“…In addition to these factors, poor ergonomics is often a problem in coal mining which results in high complaints of back pain among workers 10 . Not only have the potential to cause work accidents and occupational diseases, but also affects work productivity 11 .…”

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Collaboration Tripartite Elements Accident Reporting and Potential Hazards Management Coal Mining, Indonesia: Systematic Review

Sultan¹

2023

J Health Sci Med Res

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Objective: Occupational accidents and diseases in Indonesia are still a scourge because they not only cause minor and serious accidents, but often result in fatalities. The same occupational accidents and diseases’ would seem to be happening in the coal mining business sector. According to the Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial Indonesia, 234,370 cases of work accidents and work-related illnesses occurred in 2021, of which the mining sector contributed 6,565 cases. Collaboration between companies, workers and local governments in the management of work accident reporting needs special attention so that similar incidents do not occur in the future.Material and Methods: This literature review supports the researchers hypothesis or belief in disclosing that there is an increasingly open space for collaboration between companies, workers and local governments in accident reporting management to reduce accidents. The literature review search term used is work accident reporting sourced from Google Scholar, National Library of Indonesia, PubMed, and other sources in the 2017-2022 period.Results:This literature review found a number of facts that companies have an obligation as stipulated in the Regulation of the Minister of Manpower of the Republic of Indonesia No. 03 of 1998 concerning Accident Reporting and Investigation Procedures to report every work accident and work-related illness that occurs both periodically and specifically to the competent authority. Likewise, workers have the responsibility to report any accidents and potential hazards found in the workplace to the occupational safety and health officer. The Regional Government is no exception, which is a regulator and at the same time supervises companies in carrying out their business activities.Conclusion: To reduce workplace accidents requires diligent and constructive cooperation between the business managers, the workers, and the government regulators to support a zero-accident work environment.

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Collaboration Tripartite Elements Accident Reporting and Potential Hazards Management Coal Mining, Indonesia: Systematic Review

Sultan¹

2023

J Health Sci Med Res

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“…These findings support findings from previous studies suggesting that lower back pain is the most common problem among miners (15); (14); (5); (11). Lower back pain is associated with the number of hours worked in a shift and the repetitive movements of a body part (16). This study reports a prevalence of 51.5%, which is consistent with the findings of (12), who reported a prevalence of 50.7%, but higher than that reported in the study from the Democratic Republic of Congo (14.8%) (5).…”

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Prevalence and work-related risk factors of Musculoskeletal Disorders among miners at Kalumbila Mine, Kalumbila District Zambia

Kunda,

Lupenga,

Meki

2024

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Background: Mining is a hazardous occupation with high injury rates and work-related musculoskeletal disorders. However, few studies have reported on the prevalence and risk factors of work related musculoskeletal disorders among mineworkers in Zambia. Therefore, the study sought to examine risk factors of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among mineworkers at Kalumbila mine in Zambia. Method: A cross-sectional study was undertaken and data were collected using a self-administered Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire. A total of 357 participants were selected using a systematic random sampling method from among the male and female mine workers at the Kalumbila mine. Stata 17 was used to analyse the data and the descriptive analysis was used to determine the prevalence and types of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Factors associated with work-related musculoskeletal disorders were identified using simple and multiple logistic regression. The level of significance was set at 0.05 and confidence level at 95%. Results: The study revealed 274/356 (77%) of the participants reporting pain or discomfort in at least one body location. The highest level of discomfort or pain was reported in the lower back 184 (51.5%), upper back 90 (25.2%) and neck 89 (24.9%), whereas the lowest level of discomfort was reported in the left thigh 10 (2.8%), left forearm 11 (3.1%) and left foot 13 (3.6%). In the multivariable analysis, secondary education (AOR 2.03 CI 95%: 1.02 - 4.05, p=0.044), not taking any breaks while working (AOR 0.10 CI 95%: 0.01 - 0.86, p=0.036), and operating machinery causing whole-body vibration (AOR 3.0 CI 95%: 1.52-5.95, p=0.002) were associated with work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Conclusion: Self-reported work-related musculoskeletal disorders were common among miners, underscoring the need to invest in worker safety through ergonomic programs and workers' training on safety measures.

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“…Miners are the pioneers in the current deep-underground environment (17). At present, research mainly focuses on the occupational risk factors or subjective investigation of miners (17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22). In previous questionnaire surveys of miners in deep-underground wells, we noticed that 68-76% of miners complained about sleep disorders (23,24), which was notably related to complicated underground environmental factors.…”

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Urine metabolomics analysis of sleep quality in deep-underground miners: A pilot study

Wen

Zhou

Sun

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundIn previous questionnaire surveys of miners, sleep disorders were found among underground workers. The influence of the special deep-underground environment and its potential mechanism are still unclear. Therefore, this study intends to utilize LC-MS metabolomics to study the potential differences between different environments and different sleep qualities.MethodsTwenty-seven miners working at 645–1,500 m deep wells were investigated in this study, and 12 local ground volunteers were recruited as the control group. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to examine and evaluate the sleep status of the subjects in the past month, and valuable basic information about the participants was collected. PSQI scores were obtained according to specific calculation rules, and the corresponding sleep grouping and subsequent analysis were carried out. Through liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) non-targeted metabolomics analysis, differences in metabolism were found by bioinformatics analysis in different environments.ResultsBetween the deep-underground and ground (DUvsG) group, 316 differential metabolites were identified and 125 differential metabolites were identified in the good sleep quality vs. poor sleep quality (GSQvsPSQ) group. The metabolic pathways of Phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis (p = 0.0102) and D-Glutamine and D-glutamate metabolism (p = 0.0241) were significantly enriched in DUvsG. For GSQvsPSQ group, Butanoate metabolism was statistically significant (p = 0.0276). L-Phenylalanine, L-Tyrosine and L-Glutamine were highly expressed in the deep-underground group. Acetoacetic acid was poorly expressed, and 2-hydroxyglutaric acid was highly expressed in good sleep quality.ConclusionsThe influence of the underground environment on the human body is more likely to induce specific amino acid metabolism processes, and regulate the sleep-wake state by promoting the production of excitatory neurotransmitters. The difference in sleep quality may be related to the enhancement of glycolytic metabolism, the increase in excitatory neurotransmitters and the activation of proinflammation. L-phenylalanine, L-tyrosine and L-glutamine, Acetoacetic acid and 2-hydroxyglutaric acid may be potential biomarkers correspondingly.

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Risk Factors Associated with the Prevalence of Upper and Lower Back Pain in Male Underground Coal Miners in Punjab, Pakistan

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Collaboration Tripartite Elements Accident Reporting and Potential Hazards Management Coal Mining, Indonesia: Systematic Review

Collaboration Tripartite Elements Accident Reporting and Potential Hazards Management Coal Mining, Indonesia: Systematic Review

Prevalence and work-related risk factors of Musculoskeletal Disorders among miners at Kalumbila Mine, Kalumbila District Zambia

Urine metabolomics analysis of sleep quality in deep-underground miners: A pilot study

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