Affiliations: Guangdong Provincial Work Injury Rehabilitation
Centre, Guangzhou, China
Note: [] Address for correspondence: Kuicheng Li, The Guangdong
Provincial Work Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Wenquan Eastern Road 105, Wenquan
Town, Conghua, Guangzhou, China. Tel.: +86 20 87830238; Fax: +86 20 87830338;
E-mail: kuichengli@163.com
Abstract: Objective: To describe the epidemiology and re-employment outcomes
of employees with industrial injuries and provide further information for the
prevention of industrial injuries and work rehabilitation with the purpose of
lower injury rate and cost savings. Method: Learn about epidemiology and re-employment status by
investigating 467 employees separately when in hospital and half a year after
leaving hospital. The investigation form is designed according to the
Classification Criterion of Employee's Casualty Accident (UDC658.382 GB6441-86)
and local industrial injury status. Results: Employees with industrial injuries have obvious regional
characteristics in aspects such as sex composition, age, position of injury,
injury causes, injury type, and vocation before suffering injury, level of
education, degree of disability, employment wishes, and actual employment
status. Conclusions: Industrial injury presents obvious characteristics in
epidemiology. Therefore, it should take respective characteristics into
consideration when conducting prevention of industrial injury and work
rehabilitation.
Keywords: Industrial injuries, epidemiology, return to work
