Article 474 Federal Labor Law
TITLE NINE. Occupational Hazards
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
Work accident is any organic injury or functional disturbance, immediate or subsequent, the death or the disappearance derived from a criminal act, produced suddenly in the exercise of or by reason of the work, whatever the place and the time in which it is rendered.
The accidents that are produced when the employee travels directly from his address to the place of work and from the latter to the former are included in the previous definition.