IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Special Issue: 11 | NCAMESHE - 2014 | Jun-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 102 CHARACTERISTIC DATA ANALYSIS OF OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT IN HEAVY ENGINEERING INDUSTRY K.Dhanasekar 1 , V.S.Manigandan 2 , H. Abdul Zubar 3 , K.Visagavel 4 1 PG Research Scholar, Department of Industrial Safety Engineering, Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem 4 Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem Abstract The objective of this paper is to analysis the occupational industrial accident in a Heavy Engineering Industry from 2012 to 2013.The data was collected, observed and reviewed from Occupational Health Centre & Health Safety and Environment department. Then accident was categorized by the age wise, shift wise, type of employment, injury on human anatomy, nature of injuries and type of accident. This will be statistical analysis by calculate the total accident rate, chi square, severity and frequency rate. This analysis show higher accident rate in A shift, in 20-29 age group, by contractor workers, cut and contusion injury at finger. The reason is due to workers involved hazardous activity, non-routine and temporary activity is causes of accident, and they were newly employed, insufficient training, contract labour are uneducated and not aware about safety rules. To reduce occupational accident the organization to enhance accident analysis and find causes of accident to preventive similar kind of accident. Then implement the effective safety practice and enhance continual improvement. -------------------------------------------------------------------***------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. INTRODUCTION Accident is unplanned, unexpected, and un designed (not purposefully caused) event which occurs suddenly and causes injury or man day loss, decrease an abilities. The manufacturing industry is one of the most dangerous branches in occupational accidents. In 2007, the number of accidents causing more than 3 days’ absence at manufacturing companies in EU-15 countries and Norway totalled about 942,000. In the same year, 667 fatal accidents were recorded in the manufacturing industry (Eurostat, 2009c, S.nenonen). According to (Eurostat (2009a) about 4.5% of the workers employed in manufacturing businesses faced accident(s) at work in a 12-month period. The socio economic and human cost of a occupational and industrial accidents to organizations are globally is alarming. Globally, over 264 million industrial and occupational accidents with over 350,000 fatalities occur each year (Hamalainen, 2009). In US, industrial accidents cost are economy a staggering $156.5 billion, in lost wages, lost productivity and other expenses, and an estimated 3,400,000 disabling injuries each year. Each weekday a fatal injury occurs every 2 h and a disabling injury every 8 h (Bureau of Labour Statistics, 2007). According to (c.w.chegu).In more specifically, in order to stay economically competitive and sustainable to earn maximum profits, the contractors only execute basic safety measures and eliminate many important hazard prevention training programs during construction and project implementation. The death rate in project industry is much higher than that in other industries in 2007 according to the annual statistical report by the governing agency. Such cost reduction practices are adopted by small construction and the project enterprises even more extensively due to limited monetary circulation (Hinze and Raboud, 1988; Hinze and Gambatese, 2003; Tam et al., 2004).ToThe first aim of accident research is to understand accidents; this is generally done through the search of their causes, so that adequate prevention measures can be designed(C.jancinto; 2008, M.Canoa, 2008.) FAII, 2009 According to the accident frequency, the manufacturing industry was the third most risky branch after construction and private households with employed persons. The number of accidents in the manufacturing industry was the same as the previous year, but the frequency decreased a little as the number of work hours increased. Chi and Wu, 1997 ,Hinze et al. 1998 Number of divided categories and the actual cut offs could have enormous impacts on the result of the analysis, both required extensive literature survey and trade- offs. As indicated by),Hinze et al. 1998 carefully developed categories of accident causation would provide a viable basis for implementing effective accident prevention programs. One major objective of the current research was to develop a coding system that would facilitate the categorization of fatal. According to aFAII2009,the most common modes of injuries were contact with sharp, pointed, rough, coarse material agents (23% of the accidents) and the most common injuries resulting from the accidents were wounds and superficial injuries 47& of the accident. Haslam et al., 2005 Accident is analysed, many variables and factors are present. For example, a study about contributing factors in construction accidents in the UK concluded that problems arising from workers or the work team were present in 70% of the accidents, workplace issues in 49%, shortcomings with equipment (including PPE) in 56%, problems with suitability and condition of materials (27%), and deficiencies with risk management in 84% of accidents. By review of literatures, accident is unplanned event that causes injuries and lose of man power. The manufacturing industry