Contemporarily, typical job accidents are still being kept as an extremely relevant theme to society. The Social Welfare (INSS), in 2007, registered 653,090 work accidents. Owing to the statistics, several public offices have committed in facing the incidents characterized as typical work injuries (AT). This research was originated from a dissertation which aimed to put in analysis the investigation practices in some public agencies in Espírito Santo State as the occurrence of typical work injuries, aiming to expand the questions concerning the binary guilt for the accident - sometimes due to the employer, sometimes due to the employee. In this article, we focus on the second chapter of the dissertation, for we used the tool-concept of Biopower developed by Michel Foucault, to launch an analysis on Biopower and the accident-control policies We conclude that subjectivation mechanisms are processed in a way to quell the importance of the trasversality of institutions in the formation of work accidents.
Typical work accident; production of Subjectivity; biopower