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Anatomy of Mine Rescue Teams’ Casualty Incidents: A Basis for Medical Emergency Preparedness and Injury Prevention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2019

Leilei Li Open the ORCID record for Leilei Li [Opens in a new window] ,
Deyong Guo ,
Yi Wang ,
Ke Wang  and
Runan Lian
Leilei Li*
Affiliation:
College of Resources and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing, China
Deyong Guo
Affiliation:
College of Resources and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing, China
Yi Wang
Affiliation:
National Administration for Work Safety Emergency Response, Beijing, China
Ke Wang
Affiliation:
The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China
Runan Lian
Affiliation:
The Beijing Prevention and Treatment Hospital of Occupational Disease for Chemical Industry, Beijing, China
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Mr Leilei Li, D No.11, Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China (e-mail: lileilei6367@163.com).
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Abstract

Objective

Mine rescue teams bear a high risk of injury. To improve medical emergency preparedness and injury prevention, this work analyzed the causes and severity of mine rescue teams’ casualty incidents, the primary injuries, and the link between the causes and the occurrences of the casualty incidents.

Methods

A total of 81 cases from 1953 to 2013 were used to analyze the casualty incidents of mine rescue teams based on the frequency of accidents. A panel with 4 rescue experts was set up to ensure the accuracy of the analysis.

Results

The 81 casualty incidents occurred in 7 types of rescue work and were due to 6 causes. Organizational and personal factors were the leading cause, followed by rescue skill and equipment factors. Problems with decision-making and command have gradually become the primary inducement of casualty incidents in recent years, with an average death toll reaching up to 6 to 7 people. The main injuries causing death to team members were blast injury, burns, poisoning, suffocation, blunt trauma, and overwork injury. Some of the injured died because of medical emergency response failure.

Conclusion

The construction of emergency medical teams and the preparedness of disaster medicine need to be improved to reduce the mortality of the injured team members. Actions according to the causes of casualty incidents should be adopted for injury prevention. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2019;13:695–699)

Keywords

casualty incidentinjury preventionmedical emergency preparednessmine rescue teamrescue
Type
Brief Report
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , August 2019 , pp. 695 - 699
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 

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