Analysis of non-fatal and fatal injury rates for mine operator and contractor employees and the influence of work location

Journal of Safety Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 413-421

  Karra, Vijia K ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b Society of Mining Engineers   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatal; Injury; Mining; Non fatal; Regression

Indexed keywords

FATAL; INJURY; NON-FATAL; REGRESSION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; GRAVEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DATA MINING;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INJURY; MINING; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; DATABASES; HUMANS; MINING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 28644436938     PISSN: 00224375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2005.08.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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