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Available online at SafetyScience46(2008) 1016–1024 Evaluationofoccupationalsafetyandhealthinsurfacemines SuphiUrala,*,SitkiDemirkolb aCukurovaUniversity,FacultyofEngineeringandArchitecture,DepartmentofMiningEngineering,Adana01330,Turkey bMinistryofLabourandSocialSecurity,GeneralDirectorateofOccupationalSafetyandHealth,Ankara,Turkey Abstract TheaimofthisstudyistopresentoccupationalaccidentstatisticsinTurkishmineral-extractingindustriesandtocomparethestatisticaldatawithmajormine-producingcountries.Acomparisonofsafetyperformanceindicesinmin-eral-extractingindustriesinTurkeywiththoseofothermajormine-producingcountrieswillenableauthoritiestodevelopstrategiesinordertotaketherelevantprecautionsandeventuallyimproveminingindustriesinTurkey.TurkishdataareobtainedfromannualreportsofSocialSecurityInstitution(SSK)aswellasfromthesafetystatisticsandaccidentreportsofvarioussurfaceminesandannualreportsofTheMinistryofLabourandSocialSecurity.Mineral-extractingindustriesofTurkeyhavethehighestincidentratesandhighestfatality-to-injuryratioamongthemajormine-producingcountries.Lowaccidentratioiscausedbyseriousconsequencesofaccidents.Headandmainbodyarethemosta?ectedbodyparts.Themostcommonfatalaccident/injurytypesoccurinblastingoperations,poweredhaulageandfallofface/highwall.Theemployeesundertheageof40hadahigherriskofinjuriesthantheolderonesinTurkishsurfacemines. ó2007ElsevierLtd.Allrightsreserved. Keywords:Occupationalsafety;Surfacemines;Incidencerate;Accidentratio;Turkey 1.Introduction Accordingto2004statistics,thepopulationofTurkeyis67,844,903and6,181,251ofthepopulationsareinsuredemployeeswithsocialsecurity(SSK,2004).Statisticshaveshownthat83,830employeeshadanacci-dentin2004comprising1.36%ofthetotalnumberofemployees.Therefore,industrialaccidentsshouldbeanalysedcarefullyandeconomicalevaluationsshouldbemade.Asindicatedbythestatisticaldata,thehaz-ardspresentinmineral-extractingoperationsmakethemuniqueinthe?eldofindustrialsafetyandhealth.InTurkey,mineral-extractingindustriesrank?rst