What is an accident at work?

A work accident or work accident it is an event that occurred to an employee or partner within the company or, on the path or journey towards it, Also in the return after work to your home, as long as the route is the usual between the two points. Being able to cause an organic injury or functional disturbance.

In other words, workplace accidents are bodily, functional injuries, which can be temporary, permanent and even cause death, occurring as a result of a force greater than the worker in the workplace, even during the transfer to the same.

Characteristics of the accident at work.

• They can occur or happen because of or from the action of work.
• It results from a physical or mental injury.
• Accidents occurred to workers or partners of the company are classified in this heading.
• The accident occurs during the working day or as a result of it.

In addition to being clear about the characteristics of the work accident, it is necessary to know certain parameters or conditions in which an accident does not qualify as work accidents.

• When they occur while intoxicated or under the influence of psychotropic substance use.
• When they occur as a result of fights or lawsuits between workers.
• When they are the result of intentional assaults, attacks or injuries against themselves.
• When they occur as a consequence of an activity outside the working day, during the hours included in the working day.
• When they are the consequence of a lack of prudence.
• When it occurs during the execution of a crime in the workplace or during the performance of the working day.

Types of work accidents

• Brain hemorrhages.
• Thrombosis.
• Myocardial infarcts.
• Diseases contracted during the execution of the work, duly verified.
• Diseases that are aggravated as a result of the working day.
• Accidents that occurred in rescue or similar acts, of course, related to the working day.
• Accidents that occur as a result of tasks, even if they are different from those related to the professional area, but executed in compliance with superior orders, for the proper functioning of the organization.
• Accidents occurred to officials, performing activities or positions of a union or similar nature, occurred between the coming and going of the working day.
• The so-called commuting accidents, which occur during the transfer from the worker's home to the place where he / she performs his working day and vice versa.

Classification of accidents at work.

This classification is made based on the level of severity:

• Slight or light:

They are those injuries that imply a temporary disability and rest no longer than 48 hours, without major complications.

• Moderate or weighted:

These are injuries that lead to rest for more than 48 hours and are not supposed to cause further complications.

• Serious or dangerous:

They are injuries that imply a temporary disability with rest for more than 3 days, which allow reinsertion into the I work in activities different from the previous ones or with limitations in said tasks, due to the consequences that can leave.

• Very serious:

They are injuries that involve disability and rest for more than three days, with complications that prohibit or prevent return to work activities.

• Mortal:

They are injuries that lead to death at the moment of the accident or later.

Notification of work accidents or accidents at work.

Proper notification of the work accident to the body in charge of regulating, supporting and compensating, if applicable, the injury occurred is mandatory.

It must be done immediately and formally, first thing in the morning and during the 24 hours following the work accident.

This can be by telephone, fax or digital correspondence to the post office of the institutions involved in the supervision. of the work and safety environments of the companies and also by the person or persons authorized to carry out the notification.