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Accidents at work. By sectors. Provinces

Accidents at work. By sectors and In Itinere. Provinces 2011
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Total 183,516 22,603 14,070 23,623 243,812
Without leave 114,083 13,407 8,755 15,263 151,508
With leave 69,433 9,196 5,315 8,360 92,304
Mild 68,907 9,114 5,245 8,279 91,545
Severe 480 70 61 70 681
Deadly 46 12 9 11 78
Agriculture 1,134 692 780 994 3,600
Without leave 585 318 391 538 1,832
With leave 549 374 389 456 1,768
Mild 537 366 379 446 1,728
Severe 11 7 9 8 35
Deadly 1 1 1 2 5
Industry 47,535 6,316 4,348 5,961 64,160
Without leave 30,035 3,711 3,025 4,152 40,923
With leave 17,500 2,605 1,323 1,809 23,237
Mild 17,358 2,580 1,303 1,793 23,034
Severe 129 20 19 16 184
Deadly 13 5 1 0 19
Construction 20,806 3,649 2,151 3,536 30,142
Without leave 12,350 2,037 1,177 2,184 17,748
With leave 8,456 1,612 974 1,352 12,394
Mild 8,355 1,596 960 1,339 12,250
Severe 90 15 11 12 128
Deadly 11 1 3 1 16
Services 114,041 11,946 6,791 13,132 145,910
Without leave 71,113 7,341 4,162 8,389 91,005
With leave 42,928 4,605 2,629 4,743 54,905
Mild 42,657 4,572 2,603 4,701 54,533
Severe 250 28 22 34 334
Deadly 21 5 4 8 38
In itinere 12,265 1,066 464 815 14,610
With leave 12,265 1,066 464 815 14,610
Mild 12,026 1,043 448 799 14,316
Severe 217 17 12 13 259
Deadly 22 6 4 3 35
Source: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

Last update: February 19, 2013.

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 "..".