Research Article The Prevalence of Occupational Injuries and Associated Risk Factors among Workers in Bahir Dar Textile Share Company, Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia Destaw Damtie 1 and Abraraw Siraj 2 1 Bahir Dar University, College of Sciences, Department of Biology, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 2 Ghion Preparatory School, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia Correspondence should be addressed to Destaw Damtie; zegades96@gmail.com Received 6 March 2020; Revised 21 May 2020; Accepted 12 June 2020; Published 24 July 2020 Academic Editor: Issam A. Al-Khatib Copyright © 2020 Destaw Damtie and Abraraw Siraj. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction. Occupational injuries are occurrences arising out of, or in the course of, work which results in a fatal or nonfatal injury, e.g., a fall from a height or contact with moving machines. ey pose psychological, behavioral, social, vocational, and economic problems. No previous studies have been conducted on the prevalence and associated risk factors of occupational injuries among workers in Bahir Dar Textile Share Company (SC). erefore, this study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated risk factors of occupational injury in Bahir Dar Textile SC, Northwest Ethiopia. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted among employees of Bahir Dar Textile SC in 2019. ree hundred (195 males and 105 females) employees were selected using proportional simple random sampling from the spinning, weaving, finishing, engineering, and administration sections. Results. e one-year and the two-week occupational injury prevalences were 42.7% and 6.7%, respectively. e one-year report from all the respondents shows that abrasion (10.7%) and eye injury (7.7%) were the two top injuries, hands (12.7%) and eyes (7.7%) were the top injured body parts, and machines (22.7%) and falling/slipping (6.3%) caused most injuries. Statistically significant differences in injuries (p < 0.05) were observed due to variations in gender, job category, exposure to vibration, exposure to rays/welding sparks, and labor-intensive work. e weaving section was positively associated with occupational injuries at AOR � 4.497 and p � 0.05. Conclusions. Occupational injuries prevalence is high over the last year. e major causes of injuries were machines and falling/slipping, while the major injuries were abrasions, eye injuries, sprains, and burns. e factors significantly associated with occupational injuries were male gender, job category, use of vibrating tools, high intensive work, and rays/welding sparks. Occupational safety and health training, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and shifting employees from intensive works are recommended. 1. Introduction Ethiopia is applying the second growth and transformation plan (GTP II) to bring economic transformation and accelerated growth towards the realization of the national vision to become a low middle-income country by 2025. e GTP II aimed to raise the textile and garment industry by 80% by the end of the plan period (2019/20). Accordingly, it is planned to manufacture USD 2.18 billion and earn USD 779 million in revenue from this sector. e sector will create 174,000 job opportunities and reduce carbon emission by 25% [1]. Occupational injuries are epidemic problems in the field of public health in developing countries [2]. is is mainly because the focus on occupational health and safety, in- cluding the prevention of occupational injuries, is very limited in low-income countries [3]. For example, in a re- view of articles published from low-income countries es- pecially from the East African area, the total rate of significant injuries is estimated at 40,000 per 100,000 workers per year [4]. Millions of injury cases occur every year globally [5]. In 2014, the numbers of global fatal and nonfatal occupational accidents were 381 thousand and 374 Hindawi Journal of Environmental and Public Health Volume 2020, Article ID 2875297, 9 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/2875297