TY - JOUR PY - 2004// TI - Description of communications of work accidents registered in the National Institute of Social Security of Santa Maria, Brazil, 2000 JO - Revista gaúcha de enfermagem A1 - Kirchhof, Ana Lucia Cardoso A1 - Capellari, Claudia SP - 194 EP - 201 VL - 25 IS - 2 N2 - The communication of work accident is the document which warrants to the worker who suffered an accident the right to social benefit, and also serves as a source of epidemiological data. This study described the work accidents notified to the National Institute of Social Security of Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, in the year of 2000, attributing to them classifications that could be compared to Brazilian data and similar studies, among those the kind of accident, production sector and the worker's days off. It was possible to evidence the significant increase of notifications registered during the year of 2000 in relation to 1999, beyond the sub-register, specially in the scope of less serious accidents. LA - SN - 0102-6933 UR - http://dx.doi.org/ ID - ref1 ER -