Do Identical Circumstances Preceed Minor and Major Injuries?
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting
- Vol. 31 (2) , 200-204
- https://doi.org/10.1177/154193128703100214
Abstract
The identical causation hypothesis contends that identical causes or circumstances preceed minor and major injuries in accidents. Tests of the identical causation hypothesis were carried out by examining frequencies of prior activities, accident events and injury events across minor and major injuries, including a breakdown by job family. Also, combinations of variables (scenerios) for minor and major injuries were examined. For the individual accident variables, the data clearly support a similar causation hypothesis. However, for the combinations of accident variables, differences were discerned between minor and major injuries. Overall, the present test of the identical causation hypothesis suggests that similar preceeding circumstances may underly both minor and major injuries.Keywords
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