INJURIES IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY OF SERBIA - SOURCE, TYPE AND SEVERITY OF INJURY

In most industrialized countries, the construction industry is one of the most important branches of industry, and one of the main drivers of employment. The construction industry is the riskiest branch with the highest death rate in Serbia. The paper presents a part of research of safety at work in the construction industry of Serbia, which refers to the analysis of impact of source and type of injury on injury severity. Research was conducted in Autonomous Province of Vojvodina through the creation of an injury database and an analysis of injuries with identification of type of construction works and operations, injury sources, cause of injury, way that injury occurred, injury severity, body parts injured, data on the injured worker and data on the time of the injury. During identification of the possible causes of the injuries it was determined 66.34% of injuries were caused due to unsafe act of workers while 33.66% of injuries occurred due to unsafe working conditions. Most of the injuries were caused by improper realization of work operations. Through analysis of way in which injury have occurred, it was found that more than 30% of injuries were caused due to a fall (at the same level or at a level below), while more than 38% of injuries are caused due to struck by an object and struck against an object. Observing the severity of the injuries, most injuries are rated as medium (42.56%). Most frequently injured body parts are the foot-feet (32.41%) and hand-arm (31.99%).