Bezüglich der Todesursache zeigte sich, daß besonders Opfer von Absturzunfällen ein stark erhöhtes Risiko haben, an einer Lungenembolie zu versterben, unabhängig von der Sturzhöhe.
Auch im Verlauf über die Woche kann anhand der vorliegenden Zahlen die früher häufig nachgewiesene erhöhte Montagsmortalität nicht mehr bestätigt werden.
Quelle:
Sonja Gawehn, Tödliche Arbeitsunfälle, 1991 – 2004. Frankfurt am Main 2007
Referent: Prof. Dr. H. Bratzke
Abstract
Absolute numbers of fatal occupational accidents have continuously decreased during the 1991-2004 period examined here. This continues a positive trend, which was already ascertained in the preceeding period. Moreover, the trend is observable in the present sample as well as in the overall development in reunited Germany. However, this picture is somewhat altered if the numbers are subjected to a comparison with the equally decreasing number of those employed full-time in the predominantly affected sectors, such as the building industry and the industrial economy. Viewed against this background, a further decrease of fatal occupational accidents turns out to be unlikely, despite considerably improved conditions of workspace safety, while the relative decrease is much less prominent than expected.
The age peak of accident casualties is considerably above the average of all employees, pointing towards a decidedly increased mortality at advanced age. Mortality of foreign employees is also distinctly increased, and does not mirror the relative proportion of foreigners employed in the affected work places. This is even more obvious with respect to free-fall accidents, which constitute the largest group among the accident mechanisms… The much quoted claim of an increased monday mortality could not be confirmed any longer.
As far as the causes of death are concerned, it emerged that victims of free-fall accidents suffer from a strongly increased risk to die from pulmonary embolism, regardless of fall height.
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