Occupational injury patterns in a hospital-based cross-sectional study in Türkiye: sectoral characteristics, injury profiles, and determinants of multiple injuries (2019-2023)

Background

Occupational accidents remain a major public health and economic burden, particularly in middle-income countries. While healthcare workers and high-energy industrial sectors are often examined separately, hospital-based injury data derived from forensic medical records provide a structured opportunity to compare sector-specific injury patterns within a unified analytical framework.