1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
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Characteristics | n (%) |
---|---|
Sex | |
- male | 710 (86.2) |
- female | 114 (13.8) |
Age category years | |
- 16–29 | 145 (17.6) |
- 30–44 | 233 (28.3) |
- 45–59 | 280 (33.9) |
- 60–74 | 144 (17.5) |
- 75+ | 22 (2.7) |
Season of injury | |
- Summer | 165 (20.0) |
- Autumn | 205 (24.9) |
- Winter | 230 (27.9) |
- Spring | 224 (27.2) |
Mechanism of injury (more detail Table 3) | |
- Falls (W00–W19) | 405 (49.2) |
- Transport (V01–V99) | 254 (30.8) |
o Traffic | 127 (50.0) |
o Non-traffic (off-road) | 127 (50.0) |
- Mechanical forces (W20–W64) | 135 (16.4) |
- Other and unspecified (X58–X59) | 30 (3.6) |
Place of injury occurrence | |
- Industrial and construction area | 161 (19.5) |
- Street and highway | 124 (15.0) |
- Farm | 84 (10.2) |
- Trade and service area | 57 (6.9) |
- Home | 37 (4.5) |
- Sports and athletics area | 27 (3.3) |
- Other specified | 49 (5.9) |
- Unspecified | 285 (34.6) |
Industry (external cause—within activity code) | |
- Construction | 163 (19.8) |
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing | 104 (12.6) |
- Transport and storage | 82 (9.9) |
- Manufacturing | 13 (1.6) |
- Other specified work for income | 183 (22.2) |
- Unspecified | 184 (22.3) |
- Missing | 95 (11.5) |
SEIFA Index (Education/Occupation: quintiles) * | |
- First quintile # | 138 (17.3) |
- Second quintile | 193 (24.1) |
- Third quintile | 202 (25.3) |
- Fourth quintile | 151 (18.9) |
- Fifth quintile ## | 116 (14.5) |
- Missing | 24 (2.9) |
Injuries Sustained | Number | % |
---|---|---|
Spinal cord injury | 62 | 7.5 |
Cervical level fracture/dislocation | 183 | 22.2 |
Thoracic level fracture/dislocation | 295 | 35.8 |
Lumbosacral level fracture/dislocation | 480 | 58.3 |
Co-morbid traumatic brain injury | 65 | 7.9 |
Co-morbid severe chest injury | 93 | 11.3 |
Co-morbid severe abdominal injury | 33 | 4 |
Subsequent rehabilitation admission = yes | 47 | 5.7 |
Length of stay acute care days (mean (SD)) | 16.1 | (39.7) |
Length of stay acute care days (median (IQR)) | 4.9 | (1.7–11.5) |
Length of stay rehabilitation days (mean (SD)) | 40 | 44 |
Length of stay rehabilitation days (median (IQR)) | 24.3 | (13.9–45.9) |
Specific Activity Leading to Injury | n (%) |
---|---|
Falls | |
- From building/structure | 99 (24.4) |
- On and from ladder | 91 (22.5) |
- Other from one level to another | 77 (19.0) |
- On and from scaffolding | 33 (8.1) |
- On and from stairs | 27 (6.7) |
- Same level | 24 (5.9) |
- Other same level | 22 (5.4) |
- Other & unspecified | 21 (5.2) |
- From tree | 11 (2.7) |
Total falls | 405 (100) |
Transport accidents | |
- Occupant of heavy transport vehicle (V60–V69) | 60 (23.6) |
- Car occupant (V40–49) | 48 (18.9) |
- Animal-rider (V80) | 37 (14.6) |
- Motorcycle (V20–V29) | 21 (8.3) |
- Occupant of special all-terrain vehicle (V86) | 21 (8.3) |
- Pedestrian (V01–V09) | 12 (4.7) |
- Occupant of pick-up truck (V50–V59) | 11 (4.3) |
- Other and unspecified (V98–V99) | 11 (4.3) |
- Occupant-vehicle mainly used in agriculture (V84) | 9 (3.5) |
- Other | 9 (3.5) |
- Pedal cycle (V10–V19) | 8 (3.1) |
- Occupant-vehicle used on industrial premises (V83) | 7 (2.8) |
Total transport accidents | 254 (100) |
Mechanical forces | |
- Struck by thrown, projected or falling object (W20) | 73 (54.1) |
- Bitten or struck by other mammals (W55) | 21 (15.6) |
- Contact with other and unspecified machinery (W31) | 17 (12.6) |
- Striking against or struck by other objects (W22) | 13 (9.6) |
- Other specified | 11 (8.1) |
Total mechanical forces | 135 (100) |
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