The Risk of Trip and Fall by Characteristics of the Minimum Toe Clearance in the Middle-aged 


Vol. 34,  No. 5, pp. 132-138, Oct.  2019
10.14346/JKOSOS.2019.34.5.132


PDF
  Abstract

Fall accident is the most frequent accident type of occupational accidents. As the age of workers increases, trip and fall accident increases more than other types of occupational accident in the middle-aged group. In this study, the gait characteristics of 25 middle-aged participants (mean ages 47.4, S.D. 5.8) were studied to analyze the trip and fall risks. The Minimum toe clearance(MTC) against the floor surface was measured in the variable conditions of gait speed by a motion capture system. In the 50s age group, the MTC decreased and the MTC tended to reduce the variation with increasing walking speed in the level walking. Therefore, the trip and fall risks for the 50s age group is higher than the 40s age group. Especially, the faster walking speed will increase the trip and fall risks even more.

  Statistics
Cumulative Counts from November, 2022
Multiple requests among the same browser session are counted as one view. If you mouse over a chart, the values of data points will be shown.


  Cite this article

[IEEE Style]

박재석 and 변정환, "The Risk of Trip and Fall by Characteristics of the Minimum Toe Clearance in the Middle-aged," Journal of the Korean Society of Safety, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 132-138, 2019. DOI: 10.14346/JKOSOS.2019.34.5.132.

[ACM Style]

박재석 and 변정환. 2019. The Risk of Trip and Fall by Characteristics of the Minimum Toe Clearance in the Middle-aged. Journal of the Korean Society of Safety, 34, 5, (2019), 132-138. DOI: 10.14346/JKOSOS.2019.34.5.132.

Search
(IN TITLE, AUTHOR, ABSTRACT,KEYWORDS)

Advanced Search ▼

POPULAR KEYWORDS
(TOP 10 KEYWORDS)

Recent Publications
(LAST 3 YEARS)

pISSN : 1229 - 9197
eISSN : 1875 - 0052

Impact Factor(2022): 2.5