Table 5
Mechanism of work related injury, by age, captured in HEALF emergency department based injury surveillance system, Managua, Nicaragua, 2001–02
| Mechanism (of injury) | Age (years) | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <10 | 10–14 | 15–44 | 45–65 | >65 | ||
| Missing data = 22. Numbers in parentheses are column percentages. | ||||||
| Traffic injury | 6(21) | 7 (9) | 221 (8) | 40 (8) | 18 (5) | 292 (8) |
| Fall | 9(31) | 24 (30) | 641(23) | 224 (43) | 195 (54) | 1093 (29) |
| Other blunt force | 10 (35) | 18 (23) | 840 (30) | 113 (22) | 69 (19) | 1050 (28) |
| Stab or cut | 1(4) | 19 (24) | 707 (25) | 78 (15) | 42 (12) | 847 (23) |
| Gunshot | 1 (4) | 1 (1) | 58 (2) | 5 (1) | 1 (.3) | 66 (2) |
| Fire/smoke/heat | 1 (4) | 0 | 70 (3) | 10 (2) | 6 (2) | 87 (2) |
| Contact with a foreign body | 0 | 7 (9) | 120 (4) | 22 (4) | 7 (2) | 156 (4) |
| Poisonings | 0 | 2 (3) | 41 (2) | 6 (1) | 8 (2) | 57 (2) |
| Other/unknown | 1 (4) | 2 (3) | 92 (3) | 20 (4) | 16 (4) | 131 (3) |
| Total | 29 | 80 | 2790 | 518 | 362 | 3779 |
