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Objective: Examine indication of alcoholism in artisanal fisher folk victims of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) by diving through the application of the CAGE questionnaire. Method: Sectional study and analytical, with a quantitative approach, carried out between October 2013 and August 2014. The sample was composed of 44 fishermen who suffered SCI for diving. The data were collected by means of a structured script and the analysis was by descriptive statistics. Results: All were male (100,0%), aged 46 to 60 years (63,3%), 54,5% had until elementary school, lived without a mate (63,6%) and 52,3% reported having some type of occupation. As for the questionnaire question 1 CAGE, had the highest percentage of positive responses (90,9%). According to CAGE, it was found that 93,2% of fishermen had indication of alcoholism. Conclusion: The most of the participants had indication of alcoholism.

Objective: To identify the profile of victims of road accidents with involvement of motorcycles among workers of a textile industry in the Rio Grande do Norte State. Method: This is a cross-sectional and descriptive study, with data collected from medical records and registrations from the company itself in the period from 2008 to 2009. Results: It has unveiled 81 cases of accidents with workers involving motorcycles, of which 62% were males, with higher incidence between 22 and 25 years; 69% needed removal equal to or less than 15 days; when the removal time was greater than 15 days, the average was 274,3 days; 71% suffered injuries on the lower and upper limbs. Conclusion: The recognition of these characteristics is useful to subsidize strategies for preventing motorcycle accidents and improving the reference emergency service.