2023 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 11-27
Falls on the same level now occur in one out of four cases in occupational accidents involving four or more days off work. It is the most common occupational accident that should be prevented. Some exertions have been made to improve the working environment and educate workers about exercise. However, there are no signs of a decrease in the number of accidents involving falls. In order to reduce the risk of fall, it is necessary to focus on behaviors immediately before the occurrence of a fall, which has not been considered until now, and to clarify the influence of the behaviors on the fall risk. Therefore, in this study, we focused on the occupational accidents in 2017 involving four or more days off work of which the type was falls, and classified and analyzed the behaviors immediately before a fall occurred. The classifications were performed by age group, by industry, by cause of falls (slip, trip, miss step), and by cause of slips (wet, ice and snow). As a result, it was found that the tendency of the actions immediately before a fall occurred differed according to age, industry, cause of fall, and cause of slip.
