Causes and types of eye injuries in miners and employees of coal mines
Koraszewska-Matuszewska, B.; Kamińska-Olechnowicz, B.; Koziełło, T.; Formińska-Kapuścikowa, M.
Klinika Oczna 91(2-3): 60-62
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2157 PMID: 2593598 Document Number: 337141
One hundred and ninety workers from the coal mines were examined in the years 1977-79 at various work stands and also treated as out-patients and/or hospitalized. The ocular injuries were divided into mechanical trauma and burns. In the analyzed material the percentage of minor trauma amounted 72.5 per cent, severe ocular injuries occurred in 18.5 p.c. of cases; in 4 p.c. ensued a permanent incapacity for work in a coal mine.