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Accidents at work. By sectors. Provinces

Accidents at work. By sectors and In Itinere. Provinces 2012
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Total 153,575 19,695 12,430 19,514 205,214
Without leave 98,833 12,074 7,973 12,632 131,512
With leave 54,742 7,621 4,457 6,882 73,702
Mild 54,281 7,563 4,393 6,831 73,068
Severe 413 50 57 48 568
Deadly 48 8 7 3 66
Agriculture 1,044 656 836 957 3,493
Without leave 597 340 420 508 1,865
With leave 447 316 416 449 1,628
Mild 438 311 407 445 1,601
Severe 7 4 8 3 22
Deadly 2 1 1 1 5
Industry 38,392 5,448 3,985 4,794 52,619
Without leave 25,059 3,260 2,910 3,394 34,623
With leave 13,333 2,188 1,075 1,400 17,996
Mild 13,209 2,177 1,059 1,390 17,835
Severe 108 9 13 10 140
Deadly 16 2 3 0 21
Construction 14,396 2,538 1,504 2,317 20,755
Without leave 8,919 1,435 896 1,424 12,674
With leave 5,477 1,103 608 893 8,081
Mild 5,403 1,091 595 885 7,974
Severe 70 11 13 8 102
Deadly 4 1 0 0 5
Services 99,743 11,053 6,105 11,446 128,347
Without leave 64,258 7,039 3,747 7,306 82,350
With leave 35,485 4,014 2,358 4,140 45,997
Mild 35,231 3,984 2,332 4,111 45,658
Severe 228 26 23 27 304
Deadly 26 4 3 2 35
In itinere 11,521 912 410 770 13,613
With leave 11,521 912 410 770 13,613
Mild 11,305 882 395 759 13,341
Severe 201 27 12 10 250
Deadly 15 3 3 1 22
Source: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

Last update: February 26, 2014.

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 "..".