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| Summary: Workers in furniture factories have to move their bodies and their organs such as hands, arms, feet and head many times, depending on the dimensional and structural characteristics of the machine-bench systems they use. These movements are often within the bounds of the bodys movement, sometimes pushing these boundaries. Even movements within boundaries can cause long-term problems for employees due to repeated or constantly staying in the same position. The inconsistency between the dimensions of the machinebench system and the anthropometric dimensions of the employee can lead to physical fatigue of the worker, reduced work efficiency and quality, exposure to work accidents, and occasional loss of labor. This study aimed to prove the solvability of the above-mentioned problems by ensuring compatibility between machine-bench size and human anthropometric properties.In this study, across Turkey in 7 different cities in 11 large-scale total 411 employees faced work-related accidents in the furniture factory, musculoskeletal problems, causes of occupational accidents and evaluated a questionnaire prepared by the opinions machine-the-counter systems and were 15 anthropometric measurements with direct measurement method . Frequency and averages of anthropometric data were evaluated and cross-correlations were examined according to the results of the questionnaire. The average height of the employees is 1716.9 mm. There is no harmony between bench height and anthropometric dimensions; the subjects stated that they had to compel their necks and to reach forward while expressing their conformity. According to a significant portion of employees, individual, environmental and mechanistic factors have a significant impact on the risk of job injury. The most common occupational accidents, hand and foot injuries to the machine, and the most damaged organs were hand-arm and fingers. Workers knees, ankles and legs have been seen to have pain and numbness. There were differences between factories depending on their functions in terms of digestion, pain and drowsiness. As a result, in terms of human-machine compatibility, employees should be aware of their mechanistic, environmental and individual characteristics, as well as making use of anthropometric findings in design.This work was supported by Scientific Research Project Coordination Unit of Karadeniz Technical University. Project number: 2010.113.002.1. Key Words : Anthropometry, furniture industry, WMD disorders, occupational accidents | |||||||||||||||||||||