Fatal Work Accidents in Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil: 2007-2015

114 cases of fatal work accidents were identified from 2007 to 2015 in Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil. The dataset was created by Alana Barbosa Rodrigues to estimate underreporting across multiple government health and security information systems. Underreporting rates were calculated for systems including SIM (28.9%), SINAN (44.7%), and RAIS (73.1%).

Use Cases

• Estimate data completeness gaps in public health surveillance systems based on the described underreporting rates.
• Analyze patterns of fatal work accident reporting across different government agencies mentioned in the description.
• Benchmark the performance of the Mortality Information System (SIM) against other registries for occupational mortality.
• Inform policy interventions to improve data recording in systems like SIH-SUS, RAIS, and SISCAT as suggested by the study.

Strengths

• The study identifies 114 concrete cases of fatal work accidents.
• Provides specific underreporting percentages for five distinct information systems (e.g., SIM 28.9%, RAIS 73.1%).
• Covers a defined nine-year time period from 2007 to 2015.
• Integrates data from eight different official sources to create a single database.

Limitations

• Row count for the underlying integrated database is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the specific city and time period studied.

Provenance

Source

Multiple Brazilian government systems: SIM, SIH-SUS, SINAN, RAIS, SISCAT, SSP, police reports, and cadaver referrals.

Collection Method

Records from all sources were merged into a single database, eliminating repetitions to calculate underreporting.

Time Range

2007 to 2015

Geography

Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil