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Occupational accidents have a major impact upon human integrity, but they also bring about high costs for a country’s social security system. This situation has incidence on the productivity and competitiveness of enterprises, which in Portugal are mostly micro- and small-sized ones. The main goal of this study was to examine the accidents (that were officially recorded) in the decade 1992–2001 in...