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Accidents at work. By sectors. Provinces

Accidents at work. By sectors and In Itinere. Provinces 2003
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Total 272,422 31,405 16,943 30,613 351,383
Without leave 132,074 13,699 7,599 13,950 167,322
With leave 140,348 17,706 9,344 16,663 184,061
Mild 138,729 17,485 9,140 16,456 181,810
Severe 1,454 193 181 184 2,012
Deadly 165 28 23 23 239
Agriculture 2,336 887 656 937 4,816
Without leave 1,240 332 240 323 2,135
With leave 1,096 555 416 614 2,681
Mild 1,080 539 402 608 2,629
Severe 16 16 14 6 52
Deadly 0 0 0 0 0
Industry 96,388 9,466 4,975 7,120 117,949
Without leave 52,601 4,619 2,334 3,756 63,310
With leave 43,787 4,847 2,641 3,364 54,639
Mild 43,426 4,805 2,602 3,323 54,156
Severe 335 35 38 38 446
Deadly 26 7 1 3 37
Construction 42,722 6,917 3,958 8,913 62,510
Without leave 18,822 2,797 1,683 4,081 27,383
With leave 23,900 4,120 2,275 4,832 35,127
Mild 23,575 4,060 2,218 4,778 34,631
Severe 297 56 54 49 456
Deadly 28 4 3 5 40
Services 120,305 12,802 6,643 12,340 152,090
Without leave 59,411 5,951 3,342 5,790 74,494
With leave 60,894 6,851 3,301 6,550 77,596
Mild 60,349 6,795 3,239 6,494 76,877
Severe 493 50 54 50 647
Deadly 52 6 8 6 72
In itinere 10,671 1,333 711 1,303 14,018
With leave 10,671 1,333 711 1,303 14,018
Mild 10,299 1,286 679 1,253 13,517
Severe 313 36 21 41 411
Deadly 59 11 11 9 90
Source: Departament de Treball i Indústria. Servei d'Estudis i Estadístiques.

Last update: April 29, 2011.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Occupational injuries
Set of occupational accidents and professional sicknesses for occupational reasons, with or without the workers needing to take leave, whether they take place during the working day or when going to or returning from the workplace.

Methodological aspects

An accident at work is regarded as any specific event that causes a physical or mental bodily injury suffered by a worker as a result of the work performed. All the accidents of workers who contribute for this contingency are included.

The accidents are classified in accordance with the place in which they occur:

  • on a working day: if they take place during the working day, in the workplace itself or on a journey. Traffic accidents and other accidents in any means of transport and accidents that occur outside the company are included, but only if they occur during the working day.
  • in itinere: if they occur during a journey from the place of residence to the place of work or vice versa outside working hours.

Accidents are classified as mild, severe or deadly in accordance with their seriousness.

The incidence rate represents the number of accidents per 100,000 workers exposed to risk.

In Catalonia, the competent authority is the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

All the data are definitive except for those for last year, which are provisional.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".