An Epidemiologic Survey of Recorded Job-Related Accidents by Iranian Social Security Organization (2001-2005)

Work-related injuries are considered as the third cause of mortality across the world and have been introduced as one of the health, social and economic risk factors amongst industrial and developing communities. The present epidemiologic survey aimed to assess the work-related accidents among Iranian workers who were insured by the Social Security Organisation. This was a descriptive cross sectional study using recorded data on work-related accidents by the Social Security Organization of Iran. All obligatory insured workers and drivers who were injured during work times between 2001 and 2005 were included. Descriptive statistics were used to investigate and describe the data. Available data of 86437 work-related injured persons including 98.7% males were investigated. During the study years, work-related accidents incidents rates among insured were about 0.3%. Considering the frequency of insured workers and accidents happened, Qom, Ilam, Hamadan and Kurdistan provinces had the maximum work-related injuries per 1000 insured workers. Occurrence pattern of occupational accidents in the country from different aspects of age, gender, accident cause, the kind of accident and etc, with other studies in the country and in other parts of the world are almost consistent.