Characteristics of Work-related Fatal Injuries Among Aged Workers in
Republic of Korea

Characteristics of Work-related Fatal Injuries Among Aged Workers in
Republic of Korea

Aged workers
Fatal injuries
Republic of Korea
Work-related

The present paper aimed to examine whether an aging workforce is associated with an increase in work-related fatal injuries and to explore the underlying reasons for this potential increase.
Material and methods: Aged workers were defined as those who were at least 55 years old. Work-related
fatalities were assessed in aged and young workers who were registered with the workers’ compensation
system in 2021 in the Republic of Korea. Total waged workers, based on raw data from the Local Area
Labor Force Survey in 2021, were used as the denominator to estimate the work-related fatality rates.
Results: Most work-related fatalities in the aged workers occurred among individuals working in the
“construction sector” (58.9%), those with “elementary occupations (unskilled workers)” (46.1%), and
those with the employment status of “daily worker” (60.8%). The estimated incidence (0.973/10,000) of
work-related fatalities among aged workers was about four times higher than that (0.239/10,000) among
younger workers. “Falling,” “collision,” “struck by an object,” and “trip and slip” were more frequent
types of work-related fatalities among aged workers relative to young workers. The category of “buildings, structures, and surfaces” was a more frequent cause of work-related fatalities among aged workers
than among young workers.
Conclusions: Aged workers had a higher incidence of work-related fatalities than young workers.
Frequent engagement in precarious employment and jobs, coupled with the greater physical vulnerability of aged workers, were likely causes of their higher level of work-related fatal injuries

Jungsun Park 1
, Jong-shik Park 2
, Younghoon Jung 3
, Minoh Na 4
, Yangho Kim 5,*

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1Department of Occupational Health, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea
2 Korea Labor Institute, Sejong, Republic of Korea
3Department of Law, Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea
4Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
5Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, Republic of Korea

24 March 2024

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