Table 5 Natures of injuries reported by ARA and ARES recruits to have occurred during basic training in the Australian Army, in the period 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2014. Expressed as raw number (% of all injuries for that service type)
From: Injuries in Australian Army full-time and part-time personnel undertaking basic training
ARA | ARES | IRR (ARA/ARES) [95% CI] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MPI | SPI | MPI | SPI | ||
Soft tissue injuries | 744 (60.2%) | 8 (0.5%) | 103 (68.7%) | 1 (0.7%) | 0.93 [0.65–1.33] |
Other fractures | 101 (8.2%) | 4 (0.3%) | 2 (1.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 6.73 [0.84–53.75] |
Laceration or open wound | 46 (3.7%) | 2 (0.2%) | 8 (5.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.77 [0.18–3.33] |
Trauma to joints and ligaments | 34 (2.8%) | 2 (0.2%) | 3 (2.05) | 0 (0.0%) | 1.54 [0.20–11.75] |
Contusion, bruising and superficial crushing | 32 (2.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | 6 (4.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.68 [0.12–3.95] |
Dislocation | 28 (2.3%) | 4 (0.3%) | 2 (1.3%) | 1 (0.7%) | 1.37 [0.17–10.98] |
Friction Burn | 24 (1.9%) | 0 (0.0%) | 5 (3.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.62 [0.08–4.48] |
Other soft tissue diseases | 23 (1.9%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | – |
Collated Others* | 160 (13.0%) | 23 (1.9%) | 18 (12.0%) | 1 (0.7%) | 1.23 [0.54–2.85] |
Total | 1192 (96.5%) | 43 (3.5%) | 147 (98.0%) | 3 (2.0%) | |