ArticleAnnals of occupational and environmental medicine2021
A pilot study to assess a risk of a high-risk group of low back pain membership in workers who perform the manual material handling tasks.
Article in Annals of occupational and environmental medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effect of training on knowledge, behaviors, and low back pain among marble workers: non-randomized experimental study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Research misconduct using a ghostwriter in a paper-writing company.Annals of occupational and environmental medicine · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
- Retraction · 2023-08-29Concerns/Issues about Authorship/Affiliation · Investigation by Journal/Publisher · Paper Mill · Plagiarism of/in Article ·
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Abstract
backgroundWe conducted this experimental study to estimate a risk of a high-risk group of low back pain (LBP) membership in workers who perform the manual material handling (MMH) tasks in an actual workplace setting.
methodsThe subjects include healthy workers who were engaged in 12 MMH tasks at 6 manufacturing companies. We assessed the dynamic motion of trunk or lumbar spine using an industrial lumbar motion monitor (BioDynamics Laboratory of Ohio State University). The subjects were evaluated for the age, gender, years of working and anthropometric measurements (e.g., height, weight, shoulder height, elbow height, iliac height, leg length, trunk length, trunk circumference, iliac width, iliac depth, xiphoid width and xiphoid depth). Moreover, they were also evaluated for a risk of a high-risk group of LBP membership based on lift frequency, average twisting velocity, maximum moment, maximum sagittal flexion and maximum lateral velocity.
resultsThe subjects who were engaged in a packaging at a detergent manufacturing company are at the greatest risk of LBP (63.76%). This was followed by packaging at a leather product manufacturing company (57.06%), packaging at a non-metallic casting material manufacturing company (57.03%), manual injection at a non-metallic casting material manufacturing company (52.00%), toggling at a leather product manufacturing company (46.09%), non-metallic casting material manufacturing company (42.88%), rolling at a non-metallic mineral product manufacturing company (42.12%), shooting at a non-metallic casting material manufacturing company (40.99%), vacuum processes at a leather product manufacturing company (35.00%), looping at a general industrial machinery manufacturing company (33.93%), setting at a leather product manufacturing company (30.22%) and packaging at a general metal product manufacturing company (22.02%).
conclusionsOur approach indicates that there is a risk of a high-risk group of LBP membership in workers who perform the MMH tasks.
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