Hi Accident Facts!!!.

Hi Accident Facts!!!.

What Causes Industrial Accidents?

NO ONE can say exactly how many industrial accidents are due to a particular cause.

Most accidents have a combination of causes.

Furthermore, not all industrial accidents are properly investigated.

Questions of industrial accident causation may ultimately be answered by the proposed American Standards Association code for compiling industrial accident causes - a classification system designed for compiling statistical information, and also as a guide to accident investigation.

The proposed code is organized around the following accident factors:

(1) Agency and agency part, (2) unsafe mechanical or physical condition,

(3) accident type, (4) unsafe act, (5) unsafe personal factor.

Agencies and causes most closely associated with the actual injury are recorded; This sets aside any contributing causes, and further eliminates obscure, subjective causes. Naturally, contributing causes, as well as proximate causes, revealed by investigation, should be corrected.


Experience in applying the proposed code has revealed that individuals code an accident differently.

This handicaps statistical use of the code.