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Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Pain and Environmental Health Hazards among Tea Pluckers of Maddekanda Tea Estate in Balangoda Pradeshiya Saba Division, Sri Lanka: Table 5

Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Pain and Environmental Health Hazards among Tea Pluckers of Maddekanda Tea Estate in Balangoda Pradeshiya Saba Division, Sri Lanka
Table 5

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table of contents
  1. Abstract
    1. Background
    2. Design and methods
    3. Results
    4. Conclusions
  2. Introduction
  3. Methodology
  4. Results
    1. Socio-demographic characteristics of the participants
    2. Working characteristics of the participants
    3. Participants’ habits of substance usage
    4. Prevalence of musculoskeletal pain
    5. Prevalence of environmental health hazard
    6. Factors associated with musculoskeletal pain among tea pluckers
  5. Discussion
  6. Conclusions
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Notes
  9. References

Table 5 Other occupational hazards experienced by the participants.
VariableFrequency (n=378)%
Honeybee or wasp attack9324.6
Snake bite5314.0
Fallen from height7319.3
Cut injuries14538.4
Punch from sharped wood9926.2
Injuries to head195.0
Muscle sprain9725.7
Experience of leech bite (very often)37298.4
Non-healing wound225.8

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