Immigration and its problems: occupational accidents among women in the Italian North-Eastern Regions, “Veneto” and “Friuli Venezia-Giulia”

OBJECTIVES: to describe occupational accidents among foreign women working in two regions of North-Eastern Italy, in the perspective of a desirable prevention policy. SETTING AND DESIGN: frequency distribution of occupational accidents among foreign women covered by the National Institute for Insurance against Work Accidents (INAIL) in 2000. PARTICIPANTS: foreign female workers employed in two regions of North-Eastern Italy. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: frequency distribution of work accidents. RESULTS: 1003 occupational accidents to foreign female workers occurred in Veneto and 383 in Friuli Venezia Giulia. The most frequent places of origin of injured workers in Friuli Venezia Giulia (borderline region with Slovenia) were former Yugoslavia (113) and Albania (28). In Veneto, corresponding countries of origin were Africa (156), Romania (84) and Albania (80)