## 4 Results
### Characterization and Distribution of Accidents  
Table 4 presents the information collected about injured workers, sectors that did not suffer accidents, and information related to the accident. It was found that the majority of accidents occurred among men (93.4%), under 30 years old (66.2%), married (55.4%), working in the second shift (36, 7%), who had been with the company for less than two years (48.5%), and spent two years in the same role (56.2%). Official data from Brazil indicate that men suffer the majority of work accidents [75], especially those up to 24 years of age [76]. Likewise, Brazil is one of the leaders in turnover [77], resulting in a low time of job retention in the same company and function. Hence, the findings align with the operational context of Brazilian companies. \begin{table}
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**Variable** & **n (\%)** & **Variable** & **n (\%)** \\ \hline
**Sex** & & **Injured region** & \\ Feminine & 83 (6.6) & Head & 129 (10.2) \\
**Masculine** & 1176 (93.4) & Eyes & 124 (9.8) \\
**Age (years)** & & Neck & 5 (0.4) \\ Less than 20 & 87 (6.9) & Chest & 13 (1.0) \\ Between 20 and 24 & 473 (37.6) & Back & 49 (3.9) \\ Between 25 and 29 & 273 (21.7) & Shoulders & 20 (1.6) \\ Between 30 and 34 & 180 (14.3) & Arms and forearms & 147 (11.7) \\ Between 35 and 39 & 108 (8.6) & Hands and fingers & 638 (50.7) \\ Between 40 and 44 & 77 (6.1) & Legs and calves & 68 (5.4) \\ Between 45 and 49 & 34 (2.7) & Feet and ankles & 66 (5.2) \\ Between 50 and 54 & 20 (1.6) & **Type of injury** & \\ Over 55 & 6 (0.5) & Sprain & 16 (1.3) \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 4: Summary of information on accidents and injuries. A high prevalence of accidents is observed in the finishing (27.2%) and press (17.3%) sectors. In most cases, the worker immediately returned to work (78.5%). Findings by [PERSON] et al. [78] highlight that a large part of the footwear industry workers are concentrated in finishing and that this is one of the sectors with the highest absenteeism rates. Most accidents did not result in the opening of a work accident report (WAR) (79.3%). Brazilian data indicate that accidents without WAR increase by up to 47.49% annually [79]. More than half of the injuries occurred to the hands and fingers (50.7%) through cuts (40.0%) or bruises (34.6%). [PERSON] et al. [19] highlight that work in the footwear industry is still manual or semi-automatic, resulting in more hand and finger injuries. The occupational medicine professional classified the majority of accidents as events with serious injuries (70.7%). Figure 1 shows the number of accidents between 2016 and 2022, indicating some randomness in the number of accidents. A total of 2359 days were analyzed, of which 878 (37.2%) included an accident. There were rare peaks of five or four accidents on the same day. On most days analyzed, there were no accidents (62.8%). Table 5 summarizes the accidents that occurred daily in the years analyzed. On 602 days (25.5%), a single accident occurred. Therefore, days with two or more accidents are rare (11.7%). The result of the Chi-square test shows that the distribution of the number of accidents is different between the years (\(\chi 2=84.679\); \(p\)-value = 0.000). The year 2020 had the highest number of days without accidents (73.2%), representing almost three days