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Occupational accidents and alcohol

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Alcoholic intoxication is commonly considered to be an important cause of occupational accidents. Over a period of one year the alcohol concentration in the breath and/or blood was studied in 5439 patients, who, following an occupational accident, attended the emergency departments of a large Danish provincial city. It is concluded that only a few, apparently less than 3%, were inebriated in the legal sense of the term (BAC above 0.8‰) at the time of the accident.

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  1. The Accident Analysis Centre, Aarhus County Hospital, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark

    S. Lings, J. Jensen, S. Christensen & J. T. Møller

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The authors wish to thank The Danish Working Environment Fund (Grant no. 1978-22) and The Danish Medical Research Council for financial support

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Lings, S., Jensen, J., Christensen, S. et al. Occupational accidents and alcohol. Int. Arch Occup Environ Heath 53, 321–329 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00380671

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