[Accidents in health care workers: the experience from the Careggi Teaching Hospital]

In the last eleven years in the Careggi Hospital 4941 occupational accident has been registered, and 2951 workers were involved (28.9% of the total of the workers present in the period). The highest frequency of accident has been registered within the cooking staff, about one half of whom had an accident, and 7.2% more than 0.6 accident for person-year; the more serious consequences were registered for traffic accident, more than half happened coming to the workplace before the beginning of the work. Only 154 workers registered more than 0.6 accidents for person-year.