Abstract

NOGUEIRA, Diogo Pupo; GOMES, Jorge da Rocha  and  SAWAIA, Naim. Serious on-the-job accidents in the City of S. Paulo, Brazil. Rev. Saúde Pública [online]. 1981, vol.15, n.1, pp. 3-13. ISSN 0034-8910.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89101981000100002.

In 1970, the Accidents On-the-Job Group of the National Institute of Social Security (INPS), began a special program for the prevention of on-the-job-accidents. The following factors were studied in 3,930 cases: age, sex, marital status, occupation, cause of accident, date of occurrence, time of occurrence, occurred how soon after beginning day's work, number and type of body lesions, limitation of working capacity.

Keywords : Accidents, industrial [São Paulo, SP, Brazil]; Accidents [prevention].