Given the severity of the effects of industrial accidents on worker mental health and suffering, we have to consider this not as a cold chart with numbers, but as a starting point for meditation. We can observe two key issues. The first is the magnitude of the social and health impact of accidents. The second, and this is a critical point, is the importance of state policies designed to prevent accidents and to make primary care compulsory in mental and physical health once an accident happens and the drama starts.

Observing the table above, it is possible to visualize some of the consequences of the impact of labor policies from different economic perspectives applied in Argentina. They are the neoliberal paradigm and the Keynesian paradigm, both economic prospects applied since the return of democratic governance. The first one lasted from 1988 (year of the fall of the “Plan Primavera” [Spring Plain]) until 2001, when the “exchange rate crisis” took place (also known as the “1 to 1” [1 dollar = 1 peso]). The second paradigm is applied to exit the “convertibility” and extends up to the present.