Investigating Some Individual Factors Effect on the Consequence Severity of Occupational Accidents

Most industrial accidents are due to unsafe behaviors in the workplace. Therefore, the present study was aimed to investigate the role of individual factors on the consequence of accidents. This descriptive-analytical study was carried out based on data obtained from 1048 accidents registered in the Labor Inspection Office of one of the industrial provinces of Iran. In this study, individual factors were extracted from accident reporting forms and analyzed by SPSS software version 18. In the current study, the results showed that the least number of accidents was related to employee who had a bachelor degree or above. Of 95% reported fatalities were male and 73% of them were married. The results of statistical test showed that there is a significant relationship between outcome type and marital status (p <0.001). It was also found that the employees under 30 years old had the highest number of minor injuries and death. Fisher test showed a significant relationship between age and outcome (p <0.001). All minor, major injuries and death cases occurred among workers with less than 5 years of work experience. Also the workers with 25-30 years of work experience had the lowest percentage of accidents. The results of Chi-square test showed no significant relationship between outcome type and work experience (p <0.001). Individual factors such as gender, citizenship, age group, marital status, educational level, work experience and related work experience have an important role in the frequency and severity of accidents in industries.