Yantai topped 380 cases of occupational diseases last year

The reporter learned from the health department of Yantai City, Shandong Province on February 20. As of the end of October 2013, there were 380 new cases of occupational diseases in the city, an increase of more than 20% over the same period of last year. Pneumoconiosis, occupational ENT diseases, and diseases were more common. Occupational poisoning, etc., the morbidity groups are mainly migrant workers. After the Spring Festival, many peasant brothers embarked on the road to return to the city. Experts from the city’s health department reminded that they must pay attention to strengthening personal protection and guard against occupational diseases.

Six people suffer from "arm vibration" and their fingers turn white

The 52-year-old Liu Yuan (a pseudonym) spent 12 years drilling at a mine in Zhaoyuan. Yesterday, the reporter saw the drilling worker who was diagnosed with occupational "arm vibration." His right hand joints were almost deformed, his fingers could no longer be straightened, and he looked whiter than most people. He told reporters that the hand that touched the rig every day often felt numbness. "It is common to eat chopsticks when eating, and to do this work in order to live."

Last year, a total of six occupational diseases were diagnosed as "arm-vibration disease" as determined by Master Liu. The Department of Occupational Health and Radiation Protection at the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention said: This is an occupational disease caused by physical factors. The local vibration generated during the operation of machinery and equipment acts on the parts of human hands or feet, and on the human nervous system. The cardiovascular system, the skeletal and muscular systems can all produce hazards that can distort the end of blood vessels and can even form vibratory white fingers. Because the common site of the vibratory white finger is the distal knuckle of the index finger, middle finger, and ring finger, it can affect the proximal knuckles, resulting in whitening of all the fingers. Therefore, it is known as "dead fingers" and "dead hands."

What are the principles of treatment and handling of "arm vibration disease"? The chief of the department said that there is no specific treatment for "arm vibration" and that personal protection should be strengthened and the hand and body should be kept warm. Mild patients should be reassigned from hand-transmitted vibration assignments and appropriate treatment; moderate and severe patients must be removed from the vibration job position and actively treated.

380 new occupational diseases patients a year, pneumoconiosis first

As of October last year, a total of 380 occupational diseases were newly added in Yantai City. “There are many enterprises in mining, building materials, cement, stone processing, and machinery manufacturing in Yantai. Enterprises do not take dust and protective measures in accordance with laws and regulations, and migrant workers are seriously deficient in self-protection consciousness. This is the main reason for the high incidence of occupational diseases.” Supervising the Second Branch Qian Xinlin said in an interview.

Taking pneumoconiosis, which is the leading cause of occupational disease, as an example, many people will think that as long as they wear cotton gauze masks at work, they can play a role in dust prevention. In fact, it can not stop the fine dust, dust below 5 microns can be directly into the alveoli, and more wearing a few layers of masks is useless.

However, not all diseases at work are occupational diseases. “Occupational diseases must be listed in the National Catalogue of Occupational Diseases and have a clear professional relevance. According to diagnostic criteria for occupational diseases, diagnosed diseases should be clearly diagnosed by the statutory occupational disease diagnostic institution.” Qian Kechang said, “If workers suspect that the disease is Occupational diseases can be diagnosed by a medical and health institution that is legally responsible for the diagnosis of occupational diseases in the place where the employing unit is located, where the person's household registration is located, or where they frequently live."

This reporter learned that Yantai City has only one occupational disease hospital in Yantai, which has the qualification for occupational disease diagnosis. When applying for diagnosis of occupational diseases, laborers shall bring occupational exposure certificate issued by the workplace, occupational health examination results (copies of occupational health monitoring files, occupational disease hazard factors in the workplace, and evaluation data) to conduct occupational diseases in the Occupational Disease Hospital of Yantai City. diagnosis.

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