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NAME OF COLLECTION Contact Telephone: Canberra 02 6279 1006 Purpose Description The study excluded all persons who:
A broad definition of work was used and the cases were divided into two main groups - workers and bystanders. Workers were defined as persons who were fatally injured while performing some kind of activity for pay, profit or kind (persons driving to or from work were included as a separate group). Bystanders were persons who were not working, but who were killed directly as a result of someone else's work activity. The study also included a number of other groups whose death was related to work in a more indirect way. These groups were volunteers, students, persons performing home duties and persons fatally injured on farms but not due to obvious farm work. The information was collected from the coroner's files in each of the states and territories. The files were read and deaths classified as cases (i.e. work-related), non-cases (i.e. not work-related) or indeterminate (usually when there was not enough information to confidently classify the file as a case or a non-case). File information for the deaths that was found to be work-related was photocopied, coded into a computerised database and analysed. Files were found for 99.7% of relevant coronial files. Of the original 22,957 people who died of external causes during the study period, 3,627 (15.8%) were confirmed as cases, 17,808 were excluded as non-work-related (77.6%), and 1,522 were excluded as indeterminate (6.6%). Main data detail
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