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Accidents at work. By sectors. Provinces

Accidents at work. By sectors and In Itinere. Provinces 2009
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Total 217,050 24,456 15,147 25,301 281,954
Without leave 118,130 12,750 8,265 13,781 152,926
With leave 98,920 11,706 6,882 11,520 129,028
Mild 97,963 11,594 6,769 11,389 127,715
Severe 856 91 96 113 1,156
Deadly 101 21 17 18 157
Agriculture 1,198 663 722 935 3,518
Without leave 547 282 285 431 1,545
With leave 651 381 437 504 1,973
Mild 640 375 426 501 1,942
Severe 11 6 10 2 29
Deadly 0 0 1 1 2
Industry 55,869 6,486 4,236 5,983 72,574
Without leave 33,472 3,580 2,536 3,732 43,320
With leave 22,397 2,906 1,700 2,251 29,254
Mild 22,231 2,882 1,678 2,234 29,025
Severe 153 21 19 15 208
Deadly 13 3 3 2 21
Construction 30,670 4,541 2,839 4,955 43,005
Without leave 16,745 2,282 1,507 2,646 23,180
With leave 13,925 2,259 1,332 2,309 19,825
Mild 13,769 2,234 1,308 2,275 19,586
Severe 133 23 23 32 211
Deadly 23 2 1 2 28
Services 115,876 11,691 6,802 12,475 146,844
Without leave 67,366 6,606 3,937 6,972 84,881
With leave 48,510 5,085 2,865 5,503 61,963
Mild 48,205 5,058 2,822 5,466 61,551
Severe 269 23 35 29 356
Deadly 36 4 8 8 56
In itinere 13,437 1,075 548 953 16,013
With leave 13,437 1,075 548 953 16,013
Mild 13,118 1,045 535 913 15,611
Severe 290 18 9 35 352
Deadly 29 12 4 5 50
Source: Ministry for Business and Labour.

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 "..".