Autopsy reports of a sum of 28057 cases autopsied in the Morgue Department of the Council of Foren¬sic Medicine between the years 1994-2003 were reviewed in a consecutive and non-discriminative manner. Reports related to occupational accidents were selected and examined regarding the manner of the inci¬dent, the demographic characteristics of the cases, autopsy findings, results of the chemical analysis, and the cause of death. 466 of the reviewed cases (1.7%) died due to an occupational accident. Considering the time series, 1997 was the year with the most cases (n=67, 14.4%). Most of the accidents happened in July (n=73, 15.7%). 465 of the cases (99.8%) were men and only 1 (0.2%) was a woman. The youngest of the cases was 13, and the oldest was 69 years old. The average age was found as 32.1 years (standard deviation=11.3). Most of the cases were in the age group of 21-30 years of age (n=147, 31.5%) (Figure 3). 44 cases (9,4%) were in the age interval between 0-18. Considering the place of occupational accident, construction sites took the first place (n=153, 32.8%), followed by factories (n=33, 7.1%) and illegal workplaces (n=27, 5.8%). The place of the accident was not identified in 192 cases (41.2%). " Regarding the manner of the occupational accident, falling from height took the first place (n=111, 23.8%), followed by electric shock (n=100, 21.4%) and burried under caved in (n=24, 5.1 %). The manner of the incident was not stated in 132 of the cases (28.3%). Considering the cause of death, most of the deaths occurred due to general body trauma (n=181, 38.8%), electrocution took the second place (n=87, 18.7%), followed by deaths due to blunt cranial trauma (n=73, 15.7%). Methyl alcohol in various degrees was found in the blood of 17 of the cases (3.6%) (Figure 4), carboxyl hemoglobin (HbCO) varying from 30% to 79, 3% in 24 of the cases, met hemoglobin varying from 1, 1 % to 24, 6% in 6 cases, morphine in one case, and amitriptiline in one case.