Percepção do trabalhador sobre seu acidente de trabalho grave na construção civil

Abstract

Accidents at work are immersed in conceptions involving social determinants, economic, political, cultural and ideological. In this study we aimed to understand the perception of the construction worker about serious occupational injuries, circumstances of the accident, the path taken from the time of the accident until the service health care network, and the consequences. Qualitative and descriptive research, and for data analysis we based ourselves on the theoretical and methodological dialectical hermeneutics framework. We used semi-structured interviews to collect data, recorded and transcribed, that were answered by 17 construction workers who have suffered serious occupational injuries from June-August 2010, and were treated at a reference hospital for in Campo Grande – Mato Grosso do Sul. Analyzing the results emerged nine categories. In the category entry into the profession in construction it is reported to occur in adolescence. The three categories, informality in the civil construction, the circumstances of the accident, and the attribution of guilt and the social acceptability of the accident, assuming the error and explaining that it occurs by distraction, carelessness and inattention. Analysing the category path taken for health care was evident the use of own personal vehicle and help of friends to access the health care. For period of worker's hospitalization, one to 60 days. Categories, living with pain, changes that do not cease after work accident and difficult restart, unveiled physical pain, sequels, permanent partial disabilities, abandonment by the employer, economic losses, return difficulties in the labor market in satisfactory conditions of production. In the considerations are evident unchanged working conditions, contributing to the worker discredit. Workers' health is a field that still needs improvements, where the state must take the role of regulator and controller (with fiscalizations), ensuring the worker rights and equal opportunities.