• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.187-195
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• 2023

Purpose: This study aimed to determine the risk factors associated with the severity of fall-related injuries among patients who suffered a fall from similar heights and analyze differences in injury sites according to intentionality and injury severity. Methods: The Emergency Department-based Injury In-depth Surveillance (EDIIS) data collected between 2019 and 2020 were used in this retrospective study. Patients with fall-related injuries who fell from a height of ≥6 and <9 m were included. Patients were categorized into the severe and mild/moderate groups according to their excessive mortality ratio-adjusted Injury Severity Score (EMRISS) and the intention and non-intention groups. Injury-related and outcome-related factors were compared between the groups. Results: In total, 33,046 patients sustained fall-related injuries. Among them, 543 were enrolled for analysis. A total of 256 and 287 patients were included in the severe and mild/moderate groups, respectively, and 93 and 450 patients were included in the intention and non-intention groups, respectively. The median age was 50 years (range, 39-60 years) and 45 years (range, 27-56 years) in the severe and mild/moderate groups, respectively (P<0.001). In multivariable analysis, higher height (odds ratio [OR] 1.638; 95% confidence interval [Cl], 1.279-2.098) and accompanying foot injury (OR, 0.466; 95% CI, 0.263-0.828) were independently associated with injury severity (EMR-ISS ≥25) and intentionality of fall (OR, 0.722; 95% CI, 0.418-1.248) was not associated with injury severity. The incidence of forearm injuries was four (4.3%) and 58 cases (12.9%, P=0.018) and that of foot injuries was 20 (21.5%) and 54 cases (12.0%, P=0.015) in the intention versus non-intention groups, respectively. Conclusions: Among patients who fell from a similar height, age, and fall height were associated with severe fall-related injuries. Intentionality was not related to injury severity, and patients with foot injury were less likely to experience serious injuries. Injuries in the lower and upper extremities were more common in intentional and unintentional falls, respectively.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.113-125
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing severity of occupational fall injury. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 105 patients sustaining occupational fall injury between July 2010 and January 2013. The study instruments were developed by the National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities and National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. The questionnaire consisted of general characteristics of the subjects (30 items), workplace characteristics (12 items) and disaster characteristic (13 items). Results: Demographic factors, except age, did not affect the severity of injury. Injured patients aged 50-59 years tended to have more severe injuries than those aged 39 years. Type of transport vehicles, conditions, and the circumstances of the fall influenced injury severity. Patients transported by 119 ambulance suffered more severe fall injuries than those who were not. Electrical workers did not receive safety education wihin a year. Critical height in severe injuries was > 6 meters. Conclusion: Occupational fall injuries were influenced by patient age, types of transport vehicles, fall height, size of workplace, and safety education experience.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.155-163
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• 2016

Objective: This study aims to draw the characteristics of occupational accidents occurred in cabling work, and assess accident severity based on occupational injury data. Background: Accident factors and accident risk are different by the place of work in cabling work. Field managers require information on accident prevention that can be easily understood by workers. However, there has been a lack of studies that focus on cabling work in Korea. Method: This study classifies 450 injured persons caused in cabling work by process, and analyzes the characteristics of occupational injuries from the aspects of age, work experience and accident type. This study also analyzes accident frequency and severity of injury. Results: Results show that preparing/finishing (33.3%) was the most common type of cabling process in injuries, followed by maintenance (28.4%), routing/income (23.1%) and wiring/installation (15.1%) process. The critical incidents in the level of risk management were falls from height in the routing/incoming process, and falls from height in the maintenance process. And, incidents ranked as 'High' level of risk management were slips and trips, fall from height and vehicle incident in the preparing/finishing process, and fall from height in the wiring/installation process. Conclusion and Application: The relative frequency of accident and its severity by working process serve as important information for accident prevention, and are critical for determining priorities in preventive measures.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2000년도 추계학술대회논문집B
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• pp.447-452
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• 2000

In this study, the design of Free-Fall Simulator was carried out using concept of vertical wind tunnel. Free-Fall Simulator is not an experimental equipment but a training equipment. Therefore Free-Fall Simulator needs a large training section compared with test section of wind tunnel and has critical limit of height. These limits bring about the difficulty of design for a return passage. Due to small area ratio, the downstream flow of training section with high speed is not decelerated adequately to the fan section. High-speed flow leads to great losses in the small area ratio diffuser and corner. So design of diffusers and corners located between training section and fan section has a great effect on the Free-Fall Simulator performance. This study used an estimation method of subsonic wind tunnel performance. It considered each section of Free-Fall Simulator as an independent section. Therefore loss of one section didn't affect loss of other sections. Because losses of corner with vane and $1^{st}$ diffuser are most parts of overall Free-Fall Simulator, this study focused on the design of these sections.

• 한국건설순환자원학회논문집
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.246-254
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 폐폴리올레핀 폼을 완충재로 이용한 어린이 놀이터 바닥의 안전성을 알아보기 위하여 한계하강높이, 보행적합성 및 장기피로예측, 미끄럼저항성에 대하여 시험하고 평가하였다. 시험체는 두께 30mm, 50mm, 70mm의 폐폴리올레핀 폼에 각각 탄성 포장재를 12mm, 15mm 두께로 포설한 6종류로 하였다. 한계하강높이 시험은 KS G 5758:2009에 의거하여 실시하였다. 보행적합성 및 장기피로예측 시험에는 바닥 경도 시험장치(O-Y HMA)를 이용하였으며, 미끄럼저항성 시험에는 휴대형 미끄럼 시험기(ONO PPSM)을 이용하였다. 시험결과, 폐폴리올레핀 폼과 탄성 포장재로 구성된 바닥은 충격저감성 관점에서 상당히 안전한 것으로 나타났다. 바닥의 경도는 남성에게는 보행감이나 피로 측면에서 우수한 성능을 발휘하지만, 여성에게는 구두(미들 힐)를 신고 보행하기에 적합하지 않고 오래 사용할 경우 쉽게 피로감을 느낄 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 미끄럼저항성은 표면에 물기 등의 이물질이 있더라도 일상적인 동작에 대해서는 비교적 안전한 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.42-48
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• 2012

The present study was motivated by the needs to make diversified scientific approaches toward influential factors like human, technical, organization, policy and environmental on the basis of the specialized information concerning the cause for industrial accidents in a measure to prevent the falling accident which has the biggest priority among the three major frequent industrial accidents. In this connection, diverse policies have been practiced in the meantime, with little effects in fact to reduce occurrence of industrial accidents, seemingly because such policies have been practiced on the direct dimension, instead of tries to nip in the bud of fundamental causes. This study was thus conducted with a view to determine the causes that have influence on falling accidents from the overall context and unearth the factors requiring management with priority. For this aim, "Fall from Height"(2003), a study by HSE, UK was applied to various conditions of korea as an experiment to search for fundamental causes for falling accidents. The major findings of this study might be summed up as exploring a main critical path that has influence upon falling accidents and suggesting effective ways to cut down through the critical path.

• 한국건축시공학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2011

성능중심의 건축재료설계 수행과정에서 어떤 성능에 대한 시험 방법이 복수 존재할 경우 최적 대안 선택에 필요한 시험방법 DB 기반구축의 일환으로, 인체충돌시 바닥의 안전성을 예로서 시험방법간의 연관성을 분석하였다. 8종류의 바닥시험체를 대상으로 EN 1177의 한계하강높이 시험과 JIS A 6519의 헤드모델 시험을 적용한 결과, 주로 바닥의 강성(쿠션) 크기에 따라 각 시험방법의 적용상 한계가 있다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 시험을 통해 측정하는 물리량 단위가 같은 경우라도 시험방법간 연관성이 불분명한 상태에서는 각각의 물리량이 호환되지 않는다는 것을 알수 있었다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.153-160
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• 2016

Purpose: This study was conducted to experimentally investigate the structural safety of and identify critical locations in a front-end loader under impact loads. Methods: Impact and static tests were conducted on a commonly used front-end loader mounted on a tractor. In the impact test, the bucket of the front-end loader with maximum live load was raised to its maximum lift height and was allowed to free fall to a height of 500 mm above the ground where it was stopped abruptly. For the static test, the bucket with maximum live load was raised and held at the maximum lift height, median height, and a height of 500 mm from the ground. Strain gages were attached at twenty-three main locations on the front-end loader, and the maximum stresses and strains were measured during respective impact and static tests. Results: Stresses and strains at the same location on the loader were higher in the impact test than in the static test, for most of measurement locations. This indicated that the front-end loader was put under a severe environment during impact loading. The safety factors for stresses were higher than 1.0 at all locations during impact and static tests. Conclusions: Since the lowest safety factor was higher than 1.0, the front-end loader was considered as structurally safe under impact loads. However, caution must be exercised at the locations having relatively low safety factors because failure may occur at these locations under high impact loads. These important design locations were identified to be the bucket link elements and the connection elements between the tractor frame and front-end loader. A robust design is required for these elements because of their high failure probability caused by excessive impact stress.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.415-440
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• 2015

In the present case study, High Strain Dynamic Testing of piles is conducted at 3 different locations of Kolkata city of India. The raw field data acquired is analyzed using Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA) and CAPWAP (Case Pile Wave Analysis Programme) computer software and load settlement curves along with variation of force and velocity with time is obtained. A finite difference based numerical software FLAC3D has been used for simulating the field conditions by simulating similar soil-pile models for each case. The net pile displacement and ultimate pile capacity determined from the field tests and estimated by using numerical analyses are compared. It is seen that the ultimate capacity of the pile computed using FLAC3D differs from the field test results by around 9%, thereby indicating the efficiency of FLAC3D as reliable numerical software for analyzing pile foundations subjected to impact loading. Moreover, various parameters like top layers of cohesive soil varying from soft to stiff consistency, pile length, pile diameter, pile impedance and critical height of fall of the hammer have been found to influence both pile displacement and net pile capacity substantially. It may, therefore, be suggested to include the test in relevant IS code of practice.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.68-86
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• 1976

1. 식품(食品) 섭취(攝取) 상태(狀態) 각(各) 지역별(地域別) 남녀(男女) 아동(兒童)의 전(全) 연령(年齡)을 통(通)한 1차(次) 및 2차(次) 조사(調査)의 1일(日) 1인당(人當) 평균(平均) 식품(食品) 섭취(攝取) 상태(狀態)는 다음과 같다. 1) 양구지역(楊口地域)의 아동(兒童)의 총(總) 식품(食品) 섭취량(攝取量)은 $508.1g{\sim}647.1g$ 범위(範圍)로서 이중(中) 식물성식품(植物性食品) 및 동물성식품(動物性食品)의 섭취비율(攝取比率)은 각각(各各) $83.0{\sim}91.3%$% 및 $5.5{\sim}11.7%$범위(範圍) 이었다. 2) 여주지역(麗州地域) 아동(兒童)의 총식품(總食品) 섭취량(攝取量)은 $586.6g{\sim}697.9g$ 범위(範圍)로서 이중(中) 식물성식품(植物性食品) 및 동물성식품(動物性食品)의 섭취비율(攝取比率)은 각각(各各) $88.2{\sim}89.0%$ 및 $6.3{\sim}7.6%$ 범위(範圍) 이었다. 2. 영양소(營養素) 섭취(攝取) 상태(狀態) 각(各) 지역별(地域別) 남녀(男女) 아동(兒童)의 전(全) 연령(年齡)을 통(通)한 1차(次) 및 2차(次) 조사(調査)의 1일(日) 1인당(人當) 평균(平均) 각(各) 영양소(營養素)의 섭취(攝取) 상태(狀態)는 다음과 같다. 1) 열량(熱量) 섭취량(攝取量)은 권장량 1500 kcal에 비(比)하여 양구지역(楊口地域) 아동(兒童)이 $1120{\sim}1415kcal$ 범위(範圍)이었고 여주지역(麗州地域) 아동(兒童)이 $1407{\sim}1556kcal$ 범위(範國)이었다. 2) 단백질(蛋白質) 섭취량(攝取量)은 권장량 45g 에 비(比)하여 양구지역(楊口地域) 아동(兒童)이 $33.1{\sim}42.6g$ 범위(範圍)이었고 여주지역(麗州地域) 아동(兒童)이 $35.5{\sim}42.6g$ 범위(範圍)이었다. 그러나 이들 단백질(蛋白質) 섭취량중(攝取量中) $5.5{\sim}11.7%$만이 동물성(動物性) 단백질(蛋白質) 이였다. 3) 지방(脂肪) 섭취량(攝取量)은 권장량 20g 에 비(比)하며 양구지역(楊口地域) 아동(兒童)이 $13.9{\sim}24.3g$ 범위(範圍)이었고 여주지역(麗州池域) 아동(兒童)이 $10.4{\sim}12.1g$ 범위(範圍)이었다. 4) 당질(糖質) 섭취량(攝取量)은 양구(楊口) 및 여주지역아동(麗州地域兒童) 각각(各各) 총열량(總熱量) 섭취량(攝取量) 의 $70.6{\sim}83.8%$ 범위(範圍)를 차지 하였다. 5) 칼슘 섭취량(攝取量)은 권장량 500 mg 에 비(比)하여 양구지역(楊口地域) 아동(兒童)이 $282.4{\sim}355.0mg$이었고 여주지역(麗州地域) 아동(兒童)이 $284.6{\sim}429.0mg$ 이었다. 6) 철(鐵) 섭취량(攝取量)은 권장량 10mg에 비(比)하여 양구지역(楊口地域) 아동(兒童)이 $6.0{\sim}12.1mg$ 범위(範圍)이었고 여주지역(麗州地域) 아동(兒童)이 $6.4{\sim}16.7mg$ 범위(範圍)로 상당수의 아동(兒童)이 권장량에 미달(未達) 되었다. 7) 비터민 A 섭취량(攝取量)은 양구지역(楊口地域)이 $703.4{\sim}1495.6\;IU$ 범위(範圍)이었고 여주지역(麗州地域) 아동(兒童)이 $750.5{\sim}1521.2\;IU$ 범위(範圍)로서 ${\beta}-carotene$으로서의 권장량 5100 I.U,에 비(比)하여 매우 부족되었다. 8) 비타민 $B_1$ 섭취량(攝取量)은 권장량 0.8mg에 비(比)하여 양구지역(楊口地域) 아동(兒童)이 $0.6{\sim}0.8mg$ 범위(範圍)이었고 여주지역(麗州地域) 아동(兒童)이 $1.0{\sim}1.3mg$ 범위(範圍)이었다. 9) 비타민 $B_2$ 섭취량(攝取量) 0.9mg에 비(比)하여 양구지역(楊口地域) 아동(兒童)이 $0.4{\sim}0.7mg$ 범위(範圍) 이었고 여주지역(麗州地域) 아동(兒童)이 $0.8{\sim}1.0mg$ 범위(範圍)이었다. 10) 비타민 C 섭취량(攝取量)은 권장량 40mg에 비(比)하여 양구지역(楊口地域) 아동(兒童)이 $17.6{\sim}37.0mg$ 범위(範圍)이었고 여주지역(麗州地域) 아동(兒童)이 $43.3{\sim}58.0mg$ 범위(範圍)이었다. 11) 나이아신 섭취량(攝取量)은 권장량 10mg에 비(比)하여 양구지역(楊口地域) 아동(兒童)이 $9.3{\sim}15.2mg$ 범위(範圍)이었고 여주지역(麗州地域) 아동(兒童)이 $10.8{\sim}16.9mg$ 범위(範圍)이었다. 3. 체위(體位) 1) 신장(身長) : 양구지역(楊口地域) 남자아동(男子兒童)은 4세(歲) 및 5세(歲)에서 표준치(標準値)보다 다소(多少) 작았고 6세(歲)는 컸는데 여자아동(女子兒童)은 각(各) 연령별(年齡別) 모두 표준치(標準値) 보다컸다. 이에 비(比)하여 여주지역(麗州地域) 남자아동(男子兒童)은 각(各) 연령별(年齡別) 표준치(標準値)에 비(比)하여 컸으나 여자아동(女子兒童)은 5세(歲)에 다소(多少) 작았다. 2) 체중(體重) : 양구지역(楊口地域) 남자아동(男子兒童)은 4세(歲) 및 5세(歲)에서 표준치(標準値)보다 다소(多少) 미달(未達) 되었으나 6세(歲)는 높았는데 여자아동(女子兒童)은 각(各) 연령별(年齡別) 모두 표준치(標準値)와 비슷하였다. 이에 비(比)하며 여주지역(麗州地域) 남자(男子) 아동(兒童)은 각(各) 연령별(年齡別) 표준치(標準値)와 비슷 하거나 다소(多少) 높았으나 여자(女子) 아동(兒童)은 다소(多少) 낮았다. 3) 상완위(上腕圍) : 남녀(男女) 아동(兒童)의 전(全) 연령(年齡)을 통(通)하여 1차(次) 및 2차조사(次調査) 성적(成績)은 양구지역(楊口地域) 아동(兒童)이 $15.1cm{\sim}16.8cm$ 범위(範圍)이었고 여주지역(麗州地域) 아동(兒童)이 $15.6cm{\sim}16.6cm$ 범위(範圍) 이었다. 4) 흉위(胸圍) : 양구지역(楊口地域) 남녀(男子) 아동(兒童)은 각(各) 연령별(年齡別) 표준치(標準催)와 큰 차이(差異) 없었는데 여자(女子) 아동(兒童)은 다소(多少) 낮았다. 5) 좌고(座高) : 남자(男子) 아동(兒童)의 전(全) 연령(年齡)을 통(通)하여 양구지역(楊口地域) 아동(兒童)은 $54.2cm{\sim}61.8cm$ 범위(範圍)이었고 여주지역(麗州地域) 아동(兒童)은 $54.8cm{\sim}61.1cm$ 범위(範圍)이었다. 4. 임상증상(臨床症狀) 1) 양구지역(楊口地域) : 남자(男子) 아동(兒童)은 구각염이 약(約) 30% 충치가 약(約) 20%이었으며 여자(女子) 아동(兒童)은 전(全) 대상자(對象者) 31명중(名中) 1명(名)이 갑상선 비대 이었고 구각염이 약(約) 10%, 충치가 약(約) 20%이었다. 2) 여주지역(麗州地域) : 남자(男子) 아동(兒童)도 구각염이 약(約) 20%, 충치가 약(約) 22%이었으며 여자(女子) 아동(兒童)은 구각염이 약(約) 47%, 충치가 약(約) 20%이었다. 5. 생화학적(生化學的) 검사(檢査) 상태(狀態) 1) Hemoglabin 함량(含量)은 양구(楊口) 및 여주지역(麗州地域)의 전(全) 연령별(年齡別)을 통(通)하여 남자(男子) 아동(兒童)은 $11.0g{\sim}11.6g%$ 범위(範圍)이었고 여자(女子) 아동(兒童)은 $10.3g{\sim}11.5g%$ 범위(範圍)이었다. 2) 빈혈해당치(貧血該當値)를 WHO 가 정(定)한 l1g/100ml 이하(以下)로 보았을때 양구지역(楊口地域)의 남자아동(男子兒童)은 $16.7%{\sim}26.7%$, 여자아동(女子兒童) $33.3{\sim}50.0%$ 및 여주지역(麗州地域)의 남자(男子) 아동(兒童)은 33.3%, 여자(女子) 아동(兒童)은 $73.3%{\sim}100.0%$가 빈혈해당자(貧血該當者)에 속했다. 그러나 빈혈(貧血)의 정도(程度)는 심(深)한 경우는 거의 없고 거의 대부분(大部分)이 경(輕)한 빈혈(貧血)임이 특이(特異)하였다. 3) Hematocrit 치(値)는 전(全) 대상자(對象者)를 통(通)하며 $39.9%{\sim}41.6%$ 범위(範圍)이었다. 4) 혈장단백질(血奬蛋白質) 함량(含量)은 전(全) 대상자(對象者)를 통(通)하여 평균(平均) $6.6{\sim}7.4%$ 범위(範圍)이었는데 ICNND의 결핍해당치(缺乏該當値) 6.0g% 이하(以下)에는 양구지역(楊口地域) 4세(歲) 여자아동(女子兒童) 1명(名) 뿐이었다. 6. 기생충 상태(狀態) 1) 양구지역(楊口地域) : 남자아동(男子兒童)은 회충이 약(約) 62%, 편충이 약(約) 62%이었고 여자(女子) 아동(兒童)은 회충이 약(約) 73%, 편충이 약(約) 60%가 충란이 검출(檢出)되었다.