Table 4.

Australian Army Reserve and Regular Army Soldiers' Nature of Injuries Resulting From Reported Workplace Health and Safety Incidents, %

Nature of Injury	Army Reserve	Regular Army	Total Army
Harm to unspecified soft tissues	42.9	32.3	33.5
Harm to muscles and tendons	14.2	11.2	11.5
Disease or chronic condition	7.0	4.3	4.6
Harm to joints and ligaments	4.9	7.5	7.2
Laceration or open wound (not amputation)	4.7	3.9	4.0
Burns	2.6	1.0	1.2
Harm to bones	2.5	5.0	4.7
Poisoning and toxic effects of substances	2.3	0.9	1.0
Superficial injury	2.3	0.8	0.9
Foreign body on external eye or in ear or nose or respiratory, digestive, or reproductive tract	1.9	0.9	0.9
Heat stress/heat stroke	1.9	1.7	1.7
Deafness	0.8	2.0	1.9
Intracranial injury	0.8	1.2	1.2
Harm to mental health	0.4	1.1	1.0
Other specified injury	1.5	1.5	1.6
No known injury resulted from incident	9.3	24.7	23.1
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0