About the Authors

Thomas Behrens

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

behrens@ipa-dguv.de

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Katarzyna Burek

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Dirk Pallapies

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Leoni Kösters

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, St. Agnes-Hospital, Bocholt, Klinikum Westmünsterland, Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Wirbelsäulenchirurgie, Bocholt, Germany

Martin Lehnert

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Alexandra Beine

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Katharina Wichert

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Thomas Kantermann

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management (FOM), Essen, Germany

Céline Vetter

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America

Thomas Brüning

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Sylvia Rabstein

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

TB, KB, KW, DP, AB, ML, TBr, and SR as staff of the Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine (IPA), are employed at the “Berufsgenossenschaft Rohstoffe und chemische Industrie” (BG RCI), a public body, which is a member of the study’s main sponsor, the German Social Accident Insurance. IPA is an independent research institute of the Ruhr University Bochum. The authors are independent from the German Social Accident Insurance in study design, access to the collected data, responsibility for data analysis and interpretation, and the right to publish. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the sponsor.The study was funded by the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) (Project No.: FF463 FP0321). As stated above, this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.