The main objective of this study is to provide feature analysis of industrial accidents in manufacturing industries using CART algorithm, a data mining technique. In this study, data on 10,536 accidents were analyzed to create risk groups, including the risk of disease and accident. Also, this paper used the gains chart produced by the decision tree. According to the result, gains chart can be used for a risk analysis for industrial accidents management. The sample for this work chosen from data related to manufacturing industries during three years (2002～2004) in Korea. The resulting classification rules have been incorporated into development of a developed database tool to help quantify associated risks and act as an early warning system to individual industrial accident in manufacturing industries.

So far, there is no technique of quantitative evaluation on danger related to industrial accidents. Therefore, as an endeavor for obtaining technique of quantitative evaluation, this study presents feature analysis of industrial accidents in manufacturing field using QUEST algorithm. In order to analyze feature of industrial accidents, a retrospective analysis was performed in 10,536 subjects (10,313 injured people, 223 deaths). The sample for this work chosen from data related to manufacturing businesses during three years (2002~2004) in Korea. The analysis results were very informative since those enable us to know the most important variables such as occurrence type, company size, and occurrence time which can affect injured people. Also, it is found that classification using QUEST algorithm which was performed in this study is very reliable.