Among patients of construction-related eye injuries in an Irish hospital, 48% were foreign-born, although their proportion among construction workers was 9% [8].
In the same line, of plastic surgery patients in Dublin, 40% of victims of occupational injuries were foreign-born workers, whereas their proportion was only 9% of the total Irish workforce [9].
These four studies show that immigrant workers have a higher injury rate than the native population in both England and Ireland.