Table 5.

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

Mechanism of Injury	Army Reserve	Regular Army	Total Army
Muscular stress while lifting, carrying, or donning equipment	34.8	31.6	31.9
Fall	20.2	14.9	15.5
Contact with moving or stationary object	12.1	10.3	10.4
Chemical substance	5.5	18.1	16.8
Vehicle accident	3.0	3.3	3.3
Insect and spider bites and stings	2.3	0.5	0.6
Contact with, or exposure to, biological factors of unknown origin	2.1	2.3	2.3
Contact with hot objects	1.9	0.4	0.5
Exposure to environmental heat	1.9	1.6	1.7
Rubbing and chafing	1.1	0.5	0.6
Long-term exposure to sounds	0.2	1.6	1.4
Other and multiple mechanisms of injury	13.8	13.8	13.8
Unspecified mechanisms of injury	1.1	1.1	1.2
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0