Insights from Applying Association Rule Mining to Construction Severe Injury Reports
Publication: Computing in Civil Engineering 2023
ABSTRACT
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) started requiring businesses to report severe work-related injuries involving an amputation, hospitalization, or the loss of an eye on January 1, 2015. These severe injury reports contain valuable information that can help employers to identify and eliminate serious workplace hazards. Several studies have analyzed this data source to gain insights into severe injuries. However, they have primarily focused on descriptive analyses or reporting of the accidents without investigating the associations between the cause and consequence variables. This study proposes a novel application of association rule mining to the OSHA database to extract associations between a severe accident event, source, injury nature, and affected body parts. The extracted association rules can help employers devise new solutions to eliminate hazards and safeguard employees from the same injuries in the future. Records from the highway, street, and bridge construction are selected to demonstrate the proposed approach.
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Computing in Civil Engineering 2023
Pages: 656 - 663
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Published online: Jan 25, 2024
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Bridge engineering
- Bridges
- Bridges (by type)
- Business management
- Commercial construction
- Construction engineering
- Construction industry
- Construction management
- Disaster risk management
- Disasters and hazards
- Highway bridges
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure construction
- Occupational safety
- Practice and Profession
- Public administration
- Public health and safety
- Safety
- Structural engineering
- Traffic accidents
- Traffic engineering
- Traffic management
- Transportation engineering
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