Causes of Work Safety Accidents in Railway Construction Engineering

Abstract

Work safety accidents that occurred in railway construction engineering could cause casualties and economic losses. Analyzing the trends and causes of accidents is helpful to reduce the occurrence of an accident. In this paper, the 108 work safety accident cases from 2005 to 2020 are collected and analyzed by statistical method. The complex network theory is used to construct causation model in collapse accident. The analysis results show that from 2015 to 2020 the largest number of accidents that occurred during railway construction are in lines, followed by tunnels and bridges-culverts. The occurrence frequency of work safety accidents from May to July is significantly higher than other months. The results also show that the nodes (construction personnel operate in violation of rules and regulations and inadequate management in construction site) are of high value.