Study the epidemiological profile of selective garbage collectors and describe the major muscle lesions and work acidents. Material and techniques this was a transversal study comparing the employees of the two principal companies who collects selective garbaje at Porto Alegre city, symbolized in this study as company A and company B. We applied a questionnaire randomly for 50 workers of the two companies. The mean age was 34 and 22 years old for company A and B respectively. Around sixty six percente of worker at company B have les than 5 years of experience at the job, comparing with the 95% of the employees of the company A who have more than 5 years at the job. The lesions indices are high at the two companies, 90 and 46,% for company A and B, respectively. The most common injuries were in inferior limbs, followed by upper limbs and column. Both the companies lack the do use of protection equipament in their workers, despite the obrigatory use in the work legislation. Medical evaluations are not regular. Both companies have a elevated percentage on injuries at work in general, being inferior limbs the most common ones. They also presented elevated indices of cuts and other small bruises, probably because of the no use of the obrigatory protection equipament.
Garbage Collectors; Selective Garbage Collect; Protection Equipaments; Work injuries
