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%T Road accidents with motorcycles among workers of a textile industry %A Cavalcante, Eliane Santos %A Miranda, Francisco Arnoldo Nunes de %A Júnior, João Mário Pessoa %A Oliveira, Joana D´Arc de Souza %A Cavalcante, Cleonice Andréa Alves %A Robazzi, Maria Lúcia do Carmo Cruz %J Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online %N 2 %P 561-570 %V 6 %D 2014 %@ 2175-5361 %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-54490-0 %X Objective: To identify the profile of victims of road accidents with involvement of motorcycles among workers of a textile industry in the Rio Grande do Norte State. Method: This is a cross-sectional and descriptive study, with data collected from medical records and registrations from the company itself in the period from 2008 to 2009. Results: It has unveiled 81 cases of accidents with workers involving motorcycles, of which 62% were males, with higher incidence between 22 and 25 years; 69% needed removal equal to or less than 15 days; when the removal time was greater than 15 days, the average was 274,3 days; 71% suffered injuries on the lower and upper limbs. Conclusion: The recognition of these characteristics is useful to subsidize strategies for preventing motorcycle accidents and improving the reference emergency service. %C MISC %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info