ABSTRACT
Mining in Egypt is considered an increasingly important and promising economic activity. Much more spot lights must be focussed on aspects of mining activities in EGYPT. Statistical analysis of data concerning occupational accidents and injuries in 1987 for 21 mining establishments* comprising 9920 workers, was done on standard data collection and analysis procedures. The number of injuries during 1987 in these 21 establishments was 734t representing 7.8% of the total man power in the studied establishments. The Red Sea Governorate's workers injured ranked first [34% of the total number of injuries], followed by Alexandria Governorate [33%]. About two thirds of the injured workers were middle aged. Accidents due to struck by objects constituted 34.2%, and those due to falling objects [27.7%], followed by falling subjects [18.2%]. The agents of these studied accidents were; Transporting and moving vehicles [34.4%], followed by faulty working conditions [25.5%], and mechanical moving equipments [16.3%]. Lower limb injuries ranked first [36.8%], followed by upper limb injuries [34.4%], head and neck injuries [15.2%] and trunk injuries [9.4%]. The distribution of the werk-reluted injuries is: 33.4% resulted in less than 7 day off werk, 29.6% resulted in 7-15 days off werk, 10.7% resulted in 15-21 days off werk, 26.4% resulted in more than 21 days off work. Work related accidents in mining activities resulted in partial disabilities in 12.5% of injured cases, 6 cases [%] of total disability [0.82%], 8 cases, of death [1.09%] and the rest [85.6% of complete cure. Frequency rate of injuries in different establishments in different governorates ranged between 67.6 in Alexandria to 6.6 in Marsa Matrouh