Work-related Accidents and Illnesses of Older Shipbuilding Workers

You, Woon Shik; Byung-Yong, Jeong，

doi:10.5143/jesk.2020.39.3.205

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“…Among the various populations, MSDs are common in shipbuilding workers [3]. Shipyard work is ergonomically hazardous, commonly requiring repetitive handling of heavy or bulky materials, uncomfortable postures, and frequent bending and twisting work [4][5][6].…”

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“…They perform a broad range of physical work and spend most of their time standing, walking, bending, and twisting parts of their body [3]. They often work in uneven ground, confined spaces, heights, and outdoors [5,9]. Previous research on the shipbuilding industry has focused on occupational injuries [4,5,7,10].…”

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“…They often work in uneven ground, confined spaces, heights, and outdoors [5,9]. Previous research on the shipbuilding industry has focused on occupational injuries [4,5,7,10]. Several results have emphasized age, work experience, occupation, and company size as factors of occupational injuries and illnesses [5,7,10,11].…”

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“…Korea's shipbuilding industry has developed it into a powerful shipbuilding country, but the industry has a lot of occupational injuries and illnesses [5]. In the shipbuilding industry of South Korea in 2015, out of 233,730 workers working at 8438 shipbuilding workplaces, 1940 were confirmed as having accidents by the Industrial Accident Compensation Act [12].…”

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“…MSDs studies can be classified into questionnaire surveys using workers' subjective pain or symptoms and actual MSDs studies using work-related injuries and illnesses compensation data. Studies using actual MSDs based on occupational injuries and illnesses compensation data have limitations in the type of the variable and the number of items because analysis must be performed only within the compensation database [2,5]. Additionally, MSDs that are weaker than the number of sick leaves of compensation criterion (4 days in South Korea) are not included.…”

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A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) of Male Shipbuilding Workers and Factors Associated the Neck, Shoulder, Elbow, Low Back, or Knee MSDs

2022

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This study investigates the cross-sectional descriptive characteristics of male shipbuilding workers’ musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and factors associated with MSDs in the neck, shoulders, elbows, low back, or knees. From the national compensation data confirmed as MSDs during three years between 2015 and 2017, 985 male workers were analyzed in terms of age, work experience, occupations, company size, and MSD type according to each body region. In the analysis of frequency and severity according to ‘occupation–body region–MSD type’, ‘Electrician/plumber–low back–herniated disc’ (6.9%) was the form of MSDs with the highest frequency among total MSDs, and ‘Crane–neck–herniated disc’ (500.5 days) was the highest mean of sick leave days. The low back MSDs (28.9%) were the highest frequency, followed by shoulders (27.7%) and knees (16.2%). The herniated disc was frequent in the neck and lumbar region, and the mean of sick leave days of the neck herniated disc (402.2 days) was greater than that of the low back herniated disc (321.1 days). While a rupture was frequent in the shoulder or knee region, the mean of sick leave days for shoulder rupture (335.1 days) was greater than that of the knee rupture (318.8 days). In the binary logistic regression analysis, age was positively associated with MSDs in the neck, shoulder, or elbow regions, while the low back MSDs category was not positively associated with age. Large companies with >1000 employees were highly associated with neck MSDs, while small companies with <30 employees were related to the low back MSDs. This study derives the characteristics for frequency and sick leave days of MSDs in the neck, shoulders, elbows, low back, or knees to prioritize MSD prevention information. The results of this study can be used as primary data for establishing MSD prevention policy.

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