Musculoskeletal Disorders Resulting from Serious Workplace Accidents in the Municipality of Santarém - Pará
Serious work-related accident. Occupational health. Rehabilitation. Orthopedics.
One of the main public health challenges is workplace accidents, especially those that result in musculoskeletal disorders, leading to temporary or permanent absence from work, in addition to the economic impact of this absence and the need for multidisciplinary follow-up aimed at worker rehabilitation. In the interior of the Amazon region, several factors add greater complexity to the implementation of public policies in Occupational Health and the establishment of specialized multidisciplinary care networks. Given this context, the objective of this research was to investigate musculoskeletal disorders resulting from serious workplace accidents reported in the municipality of Santarém, Pará. This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach, conducted using secondary data from records of serious workplace accidents reported in the National System of Notifiable Diseases (SINAN NET) from 2011 to 2018. The results were systematized in spreadsheets, analyzed using descriptive statistics through measures of absolute and relative frequencies, and presented in tables. The research showed that during the study period, 670 serious work-related accidents were reported in the aforementioned municipality. Regarding the profile of the injured workers, it was found that 29.7% were between 20 and 29 years old, 89.7% were male, and 30% had incomplete primary education. Among the clinical diagnoses resulting from work-related accidents, the most frequent was finger fracture (6.6%). It should be noted that fractures in other bone structures, trauma, and traumatic amputations stand out among the most recurrent diagnoses. As for the most affected body parts, lower limbs were most frequently injured (31.8%), followed by hands (23.5%) and upper limbs (15.3%). The most recurrent outcome was temporary disability (54%). Based on the analysis of the results, it is concluded that constructing a profile of osteomyoarticular injuries resulting from serious work-related accidents can contribute to the development of strategies for prevention, immediate assistance, and rehabilitation of workers, as well as to the construction of public policies in occupational health in the Amazon region.