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Characteristic Analysis of Occupational Motorcycle Accidents for Food Delivery Workers by Employment Status

종사상 지위별 음식 배달 종사자의 이륜차 산업재해 특성 분석

  • Byungdoo, Moon (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Sudong, Lee (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Kihyo, Jung (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Ulsan)
  • 문병두 (울산대학교 산업경영공학부) ;
  • 이수동 (울산대학교 산업경영공학부 ) ;
  • 정기효 (울산대학교 산업경영공학부 )
  • Received : 2022.08.17
  • Accepted : 2022.12.07
  • Published : 2022.12.31
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Abstract

This study analyzes the characteristics of occupational accidents of food delivery via motorcycle in terms of accident probability and work-days. Depending on their employment status, food-delivery workers were divided into "employed" workers (who work for restaurants) and "special-type" workers (who work for delivery platforms). Collected data include occupational accident-information during the last two years (1,468 cases for employed workers and 4,899 cases for special-type workers) and their risk information such as age, work experience, accident location, season of the accident, and weather conditions. The study finds that special-type workers had a significantly higher accident probability for the younger age group (80.8%), while employed workers had more accidents in both 20's or younger (34.9%) and 50's or older (25.4%). The number of work-days-lost was higher for special-type workers with less work experience, and it decreased with increasing work experience. Moreover, the chance for accidents was higher at night time (55%) than for day time (45%) for special-type workers as well as for employed workers. The number of work-days-lost was higher in foreign workers (180.79 days) than in Korean workers (121.44 days). Accident probability (30.7%) and work-days-lost (136.2 days) was higher in winter than in other seasons. In addition, accidents-per-day was higher on snowy days (12.7 cases per day) than rainy (8.1) and windy days (7.1). In addition, it was found that deadly accidents mainly caused injuries to face, head, and chest, while non-deadly accidents affected mainly the legs and feet. This study enables the development of better policies to prevent accidents of food delivery workers.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT; No. 2022R1A2C1003282).

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