Abstract
Introduction:
the state of Pernambuco, in Brazil, has been undergoing transformations that attract businesses and workforce.
Objective:
to analyze how the productive concentration established in the health administrative regions of Pernambuco interfered in the profile and distribution of the severe occupational accidents from 2011 to 2013.
Method:
the Locational Quotient was used to identify the formation of specialized productive clusters in the Health Administrative Regions and to compare them with the occurrence of severe accidents.
Results:
the most injured workers were men (89.7%) aged between 30 and 44 years. Six health administrative regions were identified as specialized in a particular productive activity, but the occupations with more accidents recorded were: agricultural workers (15.4%), bricklayers (8.7%) and unskilled construction workers (4.0%), even in regions where agricultural and construction activities were not the main productive sector.
Conclusion:
the identification of productive clusters enabled the understanding of the productive organization pattern in the state, as well as of the profile of injured workers in each location, allowing the identification of productive sectors and priority occupations for structuring of workers' health surveillance.
Keywords:
workers' health; occupations; occupational accidents; productive clusters
