Hur farligt var gruvarbete i början av 1900-talet? I denna uppsats undersöks de olycksfall som inträffade i Falu koppargruva mellan åren 1906-1915. Uppsatsen behandlar totalt 387 st arbetsrelaterade olyckor i och kring gruvan. I uppsatsen framkommer att gruvarbetarna var de som löpte störst risk att råka ut för skador. Sjukskrivningarnas längd varierade kraftigt, men de flesta olyckor medförde en sjukskrivningstid på mindre än 20 dagar. Krosskador, kontusioner, sårskador och ögonskador var de vanligaste följderna av olyckorna. Händer och fötter var de mest utsatta kroppsdelarna, och de flesta olyckorna var följden av fallande stenar eller olyckor i samband med användandet av maskiner och verktyg. Under den undersökta perioden inträffade fyra dödsfall, där tre var direkt arbetsrelaterade medan ett skedde under eftervården av en olycka. De vanligast förekommande skyddsåtgärderna var att installera någon form av skydd kring maskiner eller att mana till försiktighet vid riskabla arbetsmoment.

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In the end of the1940's Occupational Medicine was institutionalised in Sweden. Health hazilards in the work place was not a new field for the Swedish physicians. They had been preocrcupied with these problems for a long time. The aim of this thesis is to analyse and describe how health hazards in the work placees, ecpecially in the factories, were perceived and described by Swedish physicians at the turn of the 20t century. The aim is also to clarify the physicians' role m shaping, developing and supervising the Occupational Safety and Health Acts. The city of Norrköping is used as anexample in discussing how physicians at a local level paid attention to health and safety issues in the work place. According to the physicians, there were a number of harmful factors in the factory work that could endanger health, but these were also seen to be dependent on the worker. Workers ldisplayed different kinds of vulnerability to the harmful factors. Sex, heredity, age, health, physique, habits and behaviour were understood as determining components. The preventive measures not only contained guidelines for the factories. They also included advises on how '!the workers should organise and live their lives outside work. The life style and behaviour the physicians would like to encourage were aligned with the !cultural values of the bourgeoisie at the tum of the 20th century. It is vital to recognise the cultural lens through which the physicians perceived and spoke of the workers' situation, their way of life and their behaviour inside as well as outside the factory.