Mechanism of work related injury, by employment category, captured in HEALF emergency department based injury surveillance system, Managua, Nicaragua, 2001–02
| Mechanism | Employment categories | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home based worker | Farm worker | Construction | Transport operator | Sales occupations | Public and personal services | Manufacturing | Business | Underemployed | ||
| Missing data = 192. Numbers in parentheses are column percentages. Text uses row percentages. | ||||||||||
| Traffic injury | 23 (3) | 20 (10) | 15 (4) | 51 (20) | 26 (9) | 71 (9) | 8 (7) | 16 (15) | 48 (8) | 278 (8) |
| Fall | 393 (51) | 47 (22) | 121 (28) | 41 (16) | 55 (20) | 200 (24) | 18 (17) | 23 (22) | 154 (25) | 1052 (29) |
| Other blunt force | 149 (19) | 44 (21) | 130 (30) | 96 (38) | 96 (34) | 245 (29) | 39 (36) | 31 (29) | 170 (28) | 1000 (28) |
| Stab or cut | 84 (11) | 68 (32) | 132 (31) | 37 (15) | 63 (23) | 208 (25) | 28 (26) | 22 (21) | 163 (27) | 805 (23) |
| Gunshot | 4 (0.5) | 3 (1) | 2 (0.5) | 6 (2) | 5 (2) | 19 (2) | 2 (2) | 5 (5) | 17 (3) | 63 (2) |
| Fire/smoke/heat | 29 (4) | 2 (1) | 3 (0.7) | 9 (4) | 5 (2) | 17 (2) | 6 (6) | 0 | 11 (2) | 82 (2) |
| Contact with a foreign body | 41 (5) | 10 (5) | 14 (3) | 5 (2) | 16 (6) | 25 (3) | 3 (3) | 7 (7) | 28 (5) | 149 (4) |
| Poisonings | 18 (2) | 7 (3) | 1 (0.2) | 0 | 3 (1) | 13 (2) | 1 (1) | 0 | 14 (2) | 57 (2) |
| Other/unknown | 30 (4) | 10 (5) | 12 (3) | 5 (2) | 10 (3) | 338 (4) | 3 (3) | 3 (3) | 12 (2) | 123 (3) |
| Total | 771 | 211 | 430 | 250 | 279 | 836 | 108 | 107 | 617 | 3609 |