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Accidents at work. By sectors. Provinces

Accidents at work. By sectors and In Itinere. Provinces 2008
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Total 241,779 29,273 16,898 29,647 317,597
Without leave 115,608 13,442 8,439 13,651 151,140
With leave 126,171 15,831 8,459 15,996 166,457
Mild 124,931 15,696 8,326 15,827 164,780
Severe 1,149 120 117 148 1,534
Deadly 91 15 16 21 143
Agriculture 2,201 800 683 1,072 4,756
Without leave 1,071 316 301 472 2,160
With leave 1,130 484 382 600 2,596
Mild 1,110 481 370 594 2,555
Severe 19 3 10 6 38
Deadly 1 0 2 0 3
Industry 71,087 7,942 4,541 7,303 90,873
Without leave 38,720 3,841 2,327 4,008 48,896
With leave 32,367 4,101 2,214 3,295 41,977
Mild 32,123 4,079 2,190 3,261 41,653
Severe 224 22 24 30 300
Deadly 20 0 0 4 24
Construction 36,874 6,382 3,933 6,717 53,906
Without leave 17,193 2,857 1,902 2,885 24,837
With leave 19,681 3,525 2,031 3,832 29,069
Mild 19,416 3,488 1,995 3,789 28,688
Severe 248 34 32 39 353
Deadly 17 3 4 4 28
Services 116,362 12,781 7,113 13,268 149,524
Without leave 58,624 6,428 3,909 6,286 75,247
With leave 57,738 6,353 3,204 6,982 74,277
Mild 57,348 6,311 3,159 6,939 73,757
Severe 358 37 38 37 470
Deadly 32 5 7 6 50
In itinere 15,255 1,368 628 1,287 18,538
With leave 15,255 1,368 628 1,287 18,538
Mild 14,934 1,337 612 1,244 18,127
Severe 300 24 13 36 373
Deadly 21 7 3 7 38
Source: Departament de Treball. 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 "..".