Table THORM04

Work-related upper limb disorders: estimated number of cases reported by rheumatologists to MOSS and by occupational physicians to OPRA and estimated rates per 100 000 workers per year, by occupation 2004-2006

Occupation(a)	SOC2000		Rheumatologists (MOSS)(p)		Occupational physicians (OPRA)(b)(p)
			Rheumatologists (MOSS)(p)		Occupational physicians (OPRA)(b)(p)
			Annual average estimated cases(c) 2004-2006	Rate per 100 000 workers per year(d)	Annual average estimated cases(c) 2004-2006	Rate per 100 000 workers per year(d)
	Major group	Unit group
	Major group	Unit group
Managers and Senior Officials	1		25	1	48	1
Professional Occupations	2		54	2	121	4
Associate Professional and Technical Occupations	3		143	4	322	8
Laboratory technicians		3111	4	7	21	36
IT operations technicians		3131	12	10	21	17
Nurses		3211	24	5	58	12
Medical radiographers		3214	4	20	11	54
Police officers (sergeant and below)		3312	17	11	34	22
Musicians		3415	21	73	5	16
Journalists, newspaper and periodical editors		3431	-	1	15	26
Broadcasting associate professionals		3432	-	-	24	57
Adminstrative and Secretarial Occupations	4		174	5	264	8
Civil Service administrative officers and assistants		4112	13	6	9	4
Local government clerical officers and assistants		4113	4	2	31	16
Accounts and wages clerks, book-keepers, other financial clerks		4122	2	-	9	2
Counter clerks		4123	26	13	8	4
Filing and other records assistants/clerks		4131	8	5	10	6
Database assistants/clerks		4136	9	12	34	45
General office assistants/clerks		4150	24	4	71	11
Personal assistants and other secretaries		4215	48	15	18	6
Typists		4217	15	97	22	140
Skilled Trades Occupations	5		331	11	507	17
Gardeners and groundsmen/groundswomen		5113	20	12	87	53
Welding trades		5215	18	24	38	50
Metal machining setters and setter-operators		5221	1	2	13	19
Metal working production and maintenance fitters		5223	45	20	55	25
Motor mechanics, auto engineers		5231	1	-	22	11
Electricians, electrical fitters		5241	22	10	49	22
Bricklayers, masons		5312	5	5	15	16
Plumbers, heating and ventilating engineers		5314	13	8	40	24
Carpenters and joiners		5315	26	10	37	14
Construction trades n.e.c.		5319	24	12	5	2
Painters and decorators		5323	33	23	4	3
Chefs, cooks		5434	28	12	13	5
Glass and ceramics makers, decorators and finishers		5491	8	49	7	42
Personal Service Occupations	6		88	4	107	5
Nursing auxiliaries and assistants		6111	5	2	29	14
Ambulance staff (excluding paramedics)		6112	-	-	27	156
Care assistants and home carers		6115	18	3	32	5
Sales and Customer Service Occupations	7		65	3	52	2
Sales and retail assistants		7111	27	2	16	1
Retail cashiers and check-out operators		7112	22	8	4	2
Call centre agents/operators		7211	2	3	10	11
Customer care occupations		7212	8	3	22	8
Process, Plant and Machine Operatives	8		285	14	554	27
Food, drink and tobacco process operatives		8111	25	17	59	41
Chemical and related process operatives		8114	5	11	38	76
Plastics process operatives		8116	8	18	10	22
Metal working machine operatives		8125	21	27	28	35
Assemblers (electrical products)		8131	1	2	20	36
Assemblers (vehicles and metal goods)		8132	97	178	41	76
Tyre, exhaust and windscreen fitters		8135	8	58	25	179
Assemblers and routine operatives n.e.c.		8139	2	3	29	47
Road construction operatives		8142	4	17	120	457
Construction operatives n.e.c.		8149	5	6	20	23
Heavy goods vehicle drivers		8211	17	6	15	5
Fork-lift truck drivers		8222	13	14	5	6
Elementary Occupations	9		189	6	228	7
Labourers in building and woodworking trades		9121	26	14	9	5
Packers, bottlers, canners, fillers		9134	19	15	27	20
Labourers in process and plant operations n.e.c.		9139	16	22	19	25
Other goods handling and storage occupations n.e.c.		9149	19	5	58	16
Postal workers, mail sorters, messengers, couriers		9211	17	8	10	5
Kitchen and catering assistants		9223	9	2	17	5
All occupations			1518	6	2204	8

Notes:

(a) All SOC2000 Major Groups are shown, as are SOC2000 Unit Groups with 10 or more actual cases reported to either MOSS or OPRA over the period 2004-2006. Figures are shown in light type if they are based on fewer than 10 actual cases.
(b) Comparisons of rates based on OPRA reports are likely to be misleading because workers in some occupations are much more likely to have access to occupational physicians than those in others.
(c) Some physicians report on a sample basis, for one month in each year. Estimated totals for these are calculated by multiplying the actual number of cases reported by 12.
(d) The rates have been calculated using the average of the Office for National Statistics Annual Population Survey (APS) denominators for the years 2004-2006.
"-" Can mean zero or rounds to zero.
nec Not elsewhere classified.
(p) Provisional.