Injury severity assessment for underground coalmine workers

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 242-250

  Khanzode, V V ^a   Maiti, J ^a   Ray, P K ^a   Tewari, V K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Incident attributes; Incident classification; Injury potential; Injury severity mode; Ridit analysis

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; PHYSICAL THERAPY;

INCIDENT ATTRIBUTES; INCIDENT CLASSIFICATIONS; INJURY POTENTIAL; INJURY SEVERITY; RIDIT ANALYSIS;

COAL MINES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COAL MINING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INDIA; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 70350759796     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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