Prevalence and Determinants of Occupational Injuries among Solid Waste Collectors of Zoomlion Ghana Limited

Table 6

Association between general characteristics and occupational injuries.

Variable	Occupational injures		Crude odd	Adjusted odd
	No (n = 280)	Yes (n = 78)	Ratio with 95% CI	Ratio with 95% CI
	n (%)	n (%)
Sex
Male	17	24	2.97 (1.50, 5.87)	2.2 (0.50, 10.22)
Female	31	256	1	1
Work duties
Collection and transporting	14	9	17.1 (3.21, 91.10)	8.50 (1.34, 48.81)
Collection	2	22	1	1
Zone
La Dade Kotopon	5	61	0.13 (0.05, 0.35)	0.16 (0.05, 0.47)
Teshie-Nungua	5	65	0.12 (0.04, 0.33)	0.31 (0.06, 0.52)
Ayawaso West	46	20	0.67 (0.33, 1.35)	1.84 (0.34, 1.55)
Osu Klottey	17	60	0.44 (0.22, 0.89)	0.05 (0.25, 1.21)
Ablekuma South	31	20	1	1
Reason for no PPE use
Lack of PPE	56	148	2.27 (1.31, 3.91)	2.24 (1.21, 4.17)
PPE not comfortable	22	132	1	1
Difficulty in sleeping
Yes	72	228	2.73 (1.12, 6.64)	2.16 (0.82, 5.71)
No	6	52	1	1
Work stress
Yes	69	193	3.45 (1.65, 7.24)	1.30 (0.55, 3.10)
No	9	87	1	1

NB: denotes  < 0.05.