| Summary: | The health and well-being of the worker must be seen as an investment and not as an expense, so work must be done to minimize occupational risks to avoid accidents at work and occupational diseases that can lead to the death of the worker, since this generates an impact on their health, on organizations, families, and society. However, in Colombia there is underreporting in its mortality databases, in the quantification and detail of these events that do not allow us to see through figures the real situation of the country. The objective of this research was to approach and identify mortality due to occupation according to sex, age, region, cause of death and level of education for the year 2017. As a methodology, a mixed study was carried out with an initial phase of systematic review of the literature for the characterization and documentation of organizational management and working conditions; in the second phase, a bivariate statistical analysis and a qualitative association test between variables (Chi-square) were performed with the microdata of the DANE death certificate for Colombia. The results found a high volume of deaths due to occupational accidents in departments such as Antioquia, Bogotá, Valle del Cauca with the following percentages, respectively 35%, 9%, 6%; It was also evidenced that men have a high mortality in their young adult stage; In terms of the most frequent causes of death are tumors, heart disease and cerebrovascular disorders, also the occupations with the highest percentage of mortality were farmers and skilled agricultural, forestry and fishing workers with 26% of all deaths, followed by Professionals, scientists and intellectuals with 14.6%; As a conclusion, it is evident that there is a bias in the information due to poor information collection and underreporting of data, which is why health professionals must be made aware to improve the obtaining of information, in the same way it is necessary to standardize the data and formats in which accidents at work, occupational ...
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