Table 6 Mechanisms 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 | ||
| Muscular stress with no objects being handled | 509 (41.2%) | 6 (0.5%) | 54 (36.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1.22 [0.75–1.98] |
| Falls | 192 (15.5%) | 5 (0.4%) | 29 (19.3%) | 1 (0.7%) | 0.84 [0.41–1.74] |
| Muscular stress while lifting, carrying, or putting objects away | 182 (14.7%) | 8 (0.6%) | 20 (13.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1.22 [0.54–2.75] |
| Other and multiple mechanisms of incident | 67 (5.4%) | 12 (1.0%) | 13 (8.7%) | 1 (0.7%) | 0.72 [0.23–2.23] |
| Contact with moving or stationary objects | 69 (5.6%) | 1 (0.1%) | 9 (6.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1.00 [0.27–3.62] |
| Unspecified | 31 (2.5%) | 2 (0.2%) | 6 (4.0%) | 1 (0.7%) | 0.60 [0.11–3.26] |
| Rubbing and Chafing | 28 (2.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 6 (4.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.60 [0.10–3.72] |
| Being hit by moving object | 24 (1.9%) | 1 (0.1%) | 1 (0.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.53 [0.14–74.43] |
| Collated Others* | 90 (7.3%) | 8 (0.6%) | 9 (6.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1.40 [0.42–4.59] |
| Total | 1192 (96.5%) | 43 (3.5%) | 147 (98.0%) | 3 (2.0%) | |