Severity analysis of accidents in forest operations

Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-184

  Potočnik, Igor ^a   Pentek, Tibor ^b   Poje, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Accident; Forest operations; Injury; Severity

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY;

DIRECT CONTACT; FOREST OPERATION; INJURY; MUSCLE STRAIN; SEVERITY; SEVERITY ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF INJURIES; STATE FORESTS;

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT; FOREST COVER; INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 77149142956     PISSN: 18455719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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