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Gender differences in non-vehicle work injuries compensated records in Italy were studied for five years (2014–2018) using Inail (National Institute for Insurance against Injuries at work) Data Records. Results showed 357.306 women injuries and 908.139 men injuries with higher injury rate in both women 11‰ and men 19.1‰ with upper and lower limb differently injured. Upper limb injuries occurred more often among men (women 34% vs 41% men, p < 0.05) with hand more injured. Wrist and elbow were significantly injured among women (wrist OR: 2.09; IC95% 2.06–2.13 and elbow OR: 1.46; IC95% 1.42–1.50). A higher women’s injury rate was found in: health care activities (20‰, the highest number of work accidents among women 83.029), cleaning (19‰), transport (17‰) Women reported more wrist fractures in cleaning, wrist dislocation in healthcare and more wrist bruise in post-service activities. Lower limb injuries occurred more often among women (women 30% vs 26% men, p < 0.05) with more ankle (OR: 1.06; IC95% 1.05–1.08) and knee (OR: 1.10; IC95% 1.08–1.11), particularly ankle dislocation among cleaners and post-services and bruise of the knee in healthcare activities. The reasons of the high rate of wear and tear of wrist, elbow, ankle and knee among women in analyzed work activities are discussed taking s/g differences into account.
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Salerno, S., Giliberti, C. (2021). Upper and Lower Limb Work Injuries: A Question of Sex or Gender?. In: Black, N.L., Neumann, W.P., Noy, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021). IEA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 220. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74605-6_62
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