It was made a sampling with the aim to study the agricultural accidents in Public Health agencies. Ten agencies were consulted in São Paulo state on the year 2000. The accidents were evaluated by the percentual distribution of follows data: characteristics of victim in an accident (sex, age, marital status); activity executed when occurred the accident; nature of cause; agent of injury; affected body members; kinds of lesions and result of accident (resting) days, overnights in hospital). It was identified 949 records of accidents and had been observed that the major was related to manual picking (41,7 %) which manual tools were the principal accidents causes (34,3 %) and the most injuries were trauma/notch (68,9 %). The main agent of injury was hit against mechanical parts or objects (43,8 %) and the higher limbs of the body were the most affected (43,2 %).
Agricultural Accidents; Statistics of Accidents
