STATISTICAL YEARBOOK OF ACCIDENTS OF ELECTRICAL ORIGIN 2023 - Base year 2022

Three essential criteria guide the structure of the Statistical Yearbook of Accidents of Electrical Origin 2023: 1) accidents with electrical shocks, 2) accidents with fires due to overloading of electrical installations, and 3) accidents with atmospheric discharges. The data were collected between January 1 and December 31, 2022. The information here is organized into six sections. The first section presents the total number of accidents - with and without fatalities - resulting from accidents of electrical origin in Brazil: electric shock, fire due to power overload (short circuit), and lightning. The second section presents data on electric shocks, with regional clippings and the type of building or location where the accidents occurred. The statistics also indicate the injured's the age group and occupation type. Similarly, the third section provides information about fires due to overloads or short circuits. The fourth section presents broader and more general data on lightning accidents. All this data conforms to the scenario of electrical installations in Brazil. The fourth section offers the data that compiles the occurrences of accidents since the beginning of the computation of data by Abracopel. Called historical series, the data emphasize the accidents with electric shock, fires caused by energy overloads, and lightning discharges (lightning) in a sequence of ten years (2013-2022). In this way, it is possible to draw comparisons and perspectives of increases or decreases in accidents. The relevant considerations about the panorama of accidents of electrical origin are manifested in the fifth section, in which real news of accidents that occurred in the year 2021 is presented; the idea is to bring to light the discussions on what can be done by civil society, economic agents and public power to prevent accidents with electricity that still victimize hundreds.