Backgrounds Workers have a risk of getting a disease caused by their job. Groups of workers while do their jobs are always in direct contact with soil as a medium of transmission of the worm eggs like roof tile maker. Based on data from health worm infection at Puskesmas I Kediri in the last three years there are three persons from Pejaten village who check worm infection and two of them showed positive result that they were infected by intestinal worm eggs. Objective This study aims to find

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... the existence of the worm eggs Intestinal Nematode on the roof tile maker's fingernails in Pejaten village, Kediri, Tabanan. Methods This research did on January until June 2016. This research use descriptive study. Sample are taken with purposive sampling technique and researcher take 26 samples. The examination is searching for worm eggs at 26 fingernails specimens had done by floating methods using a solution of 2% eosin. Results From this results, as much as 50% samples contained worm eggs. The infection rate of each worm eggs type is Ascaris lumbricoides 53,8%, Hookworm 23,1%, mix of Ascaris lumbricoides and Hookworm 15,4% and 7,7% of the sample identified containing worm eggs from the mix of Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura. Recommended Suggestion for a roof tile maker are to maintain the cleanliness of nails, washing hands after contact with soil, and also using hand gloves and footwear while they working. Keyword : Roof tile maker; fingernails; worm eggs. PENDAHULUAN Indonesia pada saat ini sedang giat membangun dalam segala bidang. Salah satu tujuan pembangunan tersebut adalah meningkatkan kualitas sumber daya manusia. 1 Upaya peningkatan kualitas sumber daya manusia tersebut yang berhubungan dengan pekerjaannya, para pekerja berisiko mendapat gangguan kesehatan atau penyakit yang disebabkan oleh pekerjaannya. 2 Soil Trasmitted Helminths (STH) adalah nematoda usus yang dalam siklus hidupnya membutuhkan tanah untuk proses pematangan sehingga terjadi perubahan dari stadium non-infektif menjadi stadium infektif.