Occupational accidents in Brazilian mining: a 13-year national analysis of incidence, mortality, and fatal-outcome correlates, 2011–2023
Description
This dataset supports the manuscript “Occupational accidents in Brazilian mining: a 13-year national analysis of incidence, mortality, and fatal-outcome correlates, 2011–2023.” The study was conducted exclusively with secondary data from official Brazilian administrative sources. Occupational accident indicators and employment denominators were obtained from the Statistical Yearbook of Occupational Accidents (Anuário Estatístico de Acidentes do Trabalho, AEAT). Accident-level information was obtained from the publicly available Occupational Accident Communication database (Comunicação de Acidente de Trabalho, CAT). Mining was defined according to employer CNAE 2.0 divisions 05, 07, and 08, covering coal mining, metal ore mining, and other mining and quarrying. Oil and gas extraction and support activities for extraction were excluded. The national analysis covers 2011–2023 and comprises 46,314 officially recorded mining accidents. The CAT component was based on 33,789 harmonized records, including 32,517 traumatic occupational accidents and 516 recorded fatal outcomes. The deposited workbook contains the aggregate data underlying the manuscript tables and figures, including national incidence and mortality trends, comparisons with all economic activities, state-level indicators for 2022–2023, aggregated CAT characteristics, adjusted odds ratios from the fatal-outcome model, temporal trend estimates, injury and causal-agent categories, sensitivity analyses, model diagnostics, a data dictionary, and complete source provenance. Individual-level CAT records are not redistributed in this dataset, despite being publicly available and de-identified. The original files can be retrieved from the official source URLs documented in the workbook and reconstructed using the accompanying reproducibility scripts. This approach preserves transparency and computational reproducibility while minimizing unnecessary redistribution of event-level administrative records. The data primarily represent workers covered by Brazilian social-security reporting systems and should not be interpreted as a complete census of all occupational accidents in mining. Employer CNAE identifies the economic activity of the establishment rather than the worker’s individual occupation. State-level comparisons are descriptive, and the temporal breakpoints and adjusted odds ratios should not be interpreted as causal effects.
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- Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, São Paulo