Associations of Individual-Related and Job-Related Risk Factors with Nonfatal Occupational Injury in the Coal Workers of Shanxi Province: A Cross-Sectional Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Cui, Yan ^a   Tian, Shuang Shuang ^b   Qiao, Nan ^a   Wang, Cong ^a,d   Wang, Tong ^a,d   Huang, Jian Jun ^c   Sun, Chen Ming ^a   Liang, Jie ^a   Liu, Xiao Meng ^a  

^a SHANXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Taiyuan Xinghualing District Food and Drug Administration   (China)

^c General Hospital of Datong Coal Mining Group   (China)

^d Innovation Center for Postgraduate Education in Municipal Engineering of Shanxi Province   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; COAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84941962885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134367     Document Type: Article

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