Objectives:

The objective was to characterize individual conditions of the worker and his environment related to occupational accidents. The cross-sectional study included injured workers in a third-level hospital in Medellín, in the period 2015-2019. There were 492 accidents, the predominant age was 26 - 40 years (54.7%). The mechanical risk was more frequent (44.7%; n=220), the biological accident was more frequent in those younger than 25 and older than 60 years (p<0.028). 96.9% (n=447) of the accidents were minor, the majority of people stated that they had received induction and training on the job (98.2%; n=483). There are characteristics such as gender, age, profession and others from the environment such as hours, type of risk, training, which can condition the presentation of occupational accidents. This promotes intelligent epidemiological surveillance programs with a risk approach and the importance of assessing training and inductions, since these may not be fulfilling self-care objectives.

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