Retracted: Cluster Analysis of Risk Factors from Near-Miss and Accident Reports in Tunneling Excavation
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VIEW CORRECTIONPublication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 144, Issue 6
Abstract
Many inherently risky industries improve their safety management by learning from near-miss incidents. The construction industry is starting to manage near-miss incidents for improving safety, and several studies have been performed to introduce a system to manage near-miss incidents during construction. However, an analytic framework to technically investigate near-miss events remains missing. In this research, a structuralized analysis of safety events (including both near misses and accidents) in metro tunnel construction was presented. A number of incidents (57 accidents and 186 near-miss events) were collected, and these crude reports were compiled through qualitative analysis into a database of safety events. The database, with both categories and variable definitions incorporated, served as the basis for quantitative analysis. Groups of events were mined to figure out whether they were similar or identical through cluster analysis. The entries in the database were divided into clusters by the iterative self-organization data analysis (ISODATA) algorithm based on the variables defined. For each level of outcome severity, the risk potential of each cluster was compared with that of other clusters and the whole database; thus, the magnitude of the risk potential of the cluster under consideration was quantified. The analysis showed that the biggest risk factors in metro tunneling excavation were in (1) improper soil reinforcement and drainage at the launching or arrival portal and (2) soil instability of the tunneling face. The developed approach in this research can be used as a decision tool to provide insights for better interpreting characteristics and patterns of the identified clusters (within different levels of risk potential) mined from the historical near-miss and accident reports in tunnel construction.
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Data Availability Statement
Data generated or analyzed during the study are available from the corresponding author by request. Information about the Journal’s data sharing policy can be found here: http://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CO.1943-7862.0001263.
Acknowledgments
The project was financed by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2017YF0805500) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 71390524 and 51708241). The authors thank the workers, foremen, and safety coordinators of the main contractors for their participation. The authors also wish to thank engineer Yun Zhang and Peilun Tu for assistance in gathering field data.
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Volume 144 • Issue 6 • June 2018
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Received: Jun 22, 2017
Accepted: Dec 5, 2017
Published online: Mar 30, 2018
Published in print: Jun 1, 2018
Discussion open until: Aug 30, 2018
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