en Occupational and Industrial Health Occupational and Industrial Health پژوهشي Original Article <p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><strong>Background:</strong> Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) may involve all parts of the body, and have been a worldwide problem. Employed women are two to five times more likely to report such problems, and assembly lines suspected to induce more WMSDs because of high rate of repetitive motions.<br> <strong>Methods: </strong>The aim of this study to determine the prevalence of WMSDs in women workers of an automobile manufacturing assembly line. In this cross-sectional survey, 50 women workers in an automobile manufacturing assembly line were studied. Data was collected based on Nordic questionnaire. The statistical analysis was performed by the SPSS 11 software.<br> <strong>Results:</strong> The MSDs prevalence rate was 98%. The most reported complaint was related to the back (68%) and there was a significant relationship between prevalence and pain severity with age and working years. Moreover, the duration of feeling pain per day, and pain severity had a significant relationship with the capability of the person to continue working.<br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Workstations ergonomically improvement and employing men instead of women would be effective to reduce the problems.</span></span></p> WMSDs, Women, Assembly line 75 79 http://jhehp.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-28-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Shirazeh Arghami arghami@zums.ac.ir 10031947532846009305 10031947532846009305 No Department of Occupational Health Engineering , Zanjan Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran. Reza Kalantari Kalantari_r@razi.tums.ac.ir 10031947532846009306 10031947532846009306 Yes Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Elham Ahmadi Kionani arghami@zums.ac.ir 10031947532846009307 10031947532846009307 No Department of Occupational Health Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Ahmad Zanjirani Farahani arghami@zums.ac.ir 10031947532846009308 10031947532846009308 No Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Mehrdad Kamrani arghami@zums.ac.ir 10031947532846009309 10031947532846009309 No Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.