Musculo-skeletal injuries in Jeddah industrial state, Saudi Arabia

Abstract EN

A retrospective analysis of 350 industrial injuries in a population of 12,828 workers was carried out in the Industrial State of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with the objectives of evaluating injuries in relation to the characteristics of workers, materials, tools, work environment, and tasks.

Data were collected by field surveillance, examining patients, notifying different factors, computing them and then analyzing using statistical analysis.

Significant relationships were found in risk factors such as young age (P < 0.0001), low level of education (P < 0.001), short experience (P < 0.0001), solid materials of average and overweight and sizes 1m2 (P < 0.0001), low energy and high velocity tools (P < 0.0001), machine handling (P < 0.05), and inadequate safety measures (P < 0.000 I), respectively.

Preventive measures were constructed accordingly.

These should be implemented in the occupational field to minimize the great loss at work.