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3.4.1 Hospital admissions (n=4) The four hospitalisations recorded on the VAED were all male adults aged between 15 and 34 years. One worker was injured on a merchant vessel, two others on ‘unspecified craft’ and the fourth on ‘other powered watercraft’. The causes of injury were: ‘other and unspecified’ water accident (2 cases), accident to watercraft causing other injury (1 case) and onboard incident not involving craft accident, nor drowning/ submersion (1 case). Recorded primary diagnoses included ruptured anterior cruciate injury (1 case), fibula fracture near the ankle (2 cases) and fracture of the forearm (1 case). 3.4.2 Hospital emergency department presentations (n=13) Twelve of the 13 persons (92%) presenting to hospital EDs for commercial boating injury were males. Presentations were spread across the 5-year age groups from age 15 to age 54 and there was one further case in age group 70-74. Three ED presentations (23%) were for hand injuries and another three were for ankle injuries. The other cases presented with shoulder, forearm, wrist, lower leg, multiple injuries or foreign body in the eye. The primary injury diagnoses were: injury to muscle/tendon (3 cases), crushing injury (2 cases), then one case each for superficial wounds, fracture, crushing injury, burn/corrosion, foreign body, other and multiple injuries. The following injury scenarios were extracted from VEMD case narrative data: • Hit by boat trailer in chest as it rolled down hill • Fall from boat (3 metres) • Crush injury to right thumb when he dropped boat trailer • Caught hand in boat rope • Fell down steps on boat • Pulling boat into harbour, injured shoulder • Slipped off boat ramp, injured ankle • 50 kg object (manhole cover) fell on patient, injured shoulder • Working on fishing boat, cut finger on unknown object 4 days ago • Injured when pushing a boat • Sailboat racing, injured finger unsure how • Captain of paddle steamer injured by boiling water • Blurred vision, foreign body 26
4. Results: hire/drive vessel incidents (2007/8) 4.1 Frequency There were 8 marine incidents involving a hire/drive vessel recorded on the MIR for the 12-month period July 2007 to June 2008 (Figure 3). Figure 3 Trend in hire-drive vessel incidents by year, Marine Incident Reporting system 1999/2000 to 2007/8 20 18 16 14 14 Frequency 12 10 8 8 8 6 4 2 0 2 3 3 199900 200001 200102 200203 200304 200405 200506 200607 200708 Financial year 1 5 2 Source: Marine Incident Reporting system July 1999 to June 2008 Note: Data for 2001/2 were incomplete, estimated frequencies (based on average frequency for same months in previous year) were used for September and October 2001 4.2 Incident severity There was no damage in 6 hire/drive incidents (75%), damage to property only in one incident (12.5%) and other vessel damage in one incident (12.5%). 4.3 Major causes (types) of incidents Five incidents were due to grounding-unintentional (63%), one was due to a disablement (12.5%), one was an onboard incident-crushing/pinching (12.5%) and in one case the type of incident was undefined. 4.4 Vessel and occupant details All were single vessel incidents. Five vessels had passengers on board at the time of the incident (between 1 and 3). Marine Safety in Victoria: July 2007 to June 2008 27
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Page 38 and 39: Table 7 Recreational vessel ‘seri
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Page 62 and 63: 6 Discussion and conclusion There w
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Page 68 and 69: 7 References Ashby K, Cassell E. (2
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