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Serious on-the-job accidents in the City of S. Paulo, Brazil

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.

Accidents, industrial; Accidents


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