A Preliminary Study on Accident Analysis of Portable Timber Sawmills Used in Mazamba Forest Plantation in Northern Malawi

Table 1

Response frequencies and variance account on causes of accidents.

Causes of accidents	No. of respondents (N = 45)	Relative frequency of respondents (%)	Initial eigenvalues			Extracted component
			Total %	% of variance	Cumulative %
1	17	37.8	1.423	20.327	20.327
2	8	17.8	1.307	18.675	39.002
3	7	15.6	1.178	16.831	55.833
4	6	13.3	1.110	15.859	71.692
5	3	6.7	0.814	11.626	83.318
6	2	4.4	0.735	10.497	93.816
7	2	4.4	0.433	6.184	100.000
^2		25.78
df		6
		<0.001

Denotes extracted factors with eigenvalue >1.