the transportation industry has the highest fatality rate on an annual basis.
the transportation industry has the highest fatality rate on an annual basis.
which industry has the highest fatality rate on an annual basis?
transportation
report from national audit office (nao) showed that construction/building industry had highest fatality rate of 23.7% followed by transport and mining/quarrying that had 20.6% and 20.5 respectively (table 1 below). injuries in transport sector is another life-threatening risk that continues to claim lives of people especially motorcyclist and public transport (buses). however the major challenge in these information is validity and reliability as the reporting and data keeping system in tanzania is not well coordinated.









































table 1: fatality rate sectorwise









































source: nao report- performance audit report on the management of occupational health and safety in tanzania, 2013.
occupational safety and health in tanzania
the overall case-fatality rate for ordinary-type smallpox is about 30 percent, but varies by pock distribution: ordinary type-confluent is fatal about 50–75 percent of the time, ordinary-type semi-confluent about 25–50 percent of the time, in cases where the rash is discrete the case-fatality rate is less than 10 percent. the overall fatality rate for children younger than 1 year of age is 40–50 percent. hemorrhagic and flat types have the highest fatality rates. the fatality rate for flat-type is 90 percent or greater and nearly 100 percent is observed in cases of hemorrhagic smallpox. the case-fatality rate for variola minor is 1 percent or less. there is no evidence of chronic or recurrent infection with "variola virus".
smallpox