Brazilian Road Freight Transport Fatal Accidents and Labor Inspections, 2008-2012

Official data on fatal work accidents and federal labor inspections in Brazil's road freight transport sector from 2008 to 2012. The study by Ademar Fragoso Junior highlights 1,430 fatal accidents in the sector and analyzes the proportion of labor inspections. It uses quantitative, descriptive, and exploratory methods based on documentary, bibliographical, and official sources.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between fatal accident rates and labor inspection frequency based on the reported 1.4% inspection share.
• Modeling risk factors for truck driver fatalities based on the reported death rates per 100,000 employed persons.
• Evaluating policy enforcement by comparing the verification of drivers' working and rest hours against inspection counts.

Strengths

• Includes specific fatality counts: 1,430 deaths in the road freight transport sector and 1,098 deaths for long-distance truck drivers in 2011.
• Provides concrete metrics: 37.97 deaths per 100,000 employed persons for the sector and 55.33 for the truck driver occupation.
• Defines a clear temporal scope: data covers the five-year period from 2008 to 2012.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Official data from the Brazilian Ministry of Labor, as cited in the paper.

Collection Method

Quantitative, descriptive, and exploratory study using documentary, bibliographical, and official data.

Time Range

2008 to 2012

Geography

Brazil