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Accidents at work. By sectors. Provinces

Accidents at work. By sectors and In Itinere. Provinces 2016
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Total 161,952 22,970 14,210 22,269 221,401
Without leave 96,808 13,258 8,788 13,401 132,255
With leave 65,144 9,712 5,422 8,868 89,146
Mild 64,716 9,657 5,358 8,806 88,537
Severe 380 52 52 57 541
Deadly 48 3 12 5 68
Agriculture 961 723 1,100 1,075 3,859
Without leave 493 350 502 544 1,889
With leave 468 373 598 531 1,970
Mild 460 366 582 529 1,937
Severe 7 7 14 2 30
Deadly 1 0 2 0 3
Industry 36,611 6,204 4,312 5,171 52,298
Without leave 22,180 3,482 3,114 3,473 32,249
With leave 14,431 2,722 1,198 1,698 20,049
Mild 14,331 2,716 1,190 1,685 19,922
Severe 91 6 8 12 117
Deadly 9 0 0 1 10
Construction 13,822 2,508 1,538 2,044 19,912
Without leave 7,792 1,364 877 1,156 11,189
With leave 6,030 1,144 661 888 8,723
Mild 5,965 1,128 648 880 8,621
Severe 62 14 11 8 95
Deadly 3 2 2 0 7
Services 110,558 13,535 7,260 13,979 145,332
Without leave 66,343 8,062 4,295 8,228 86,928
With leave 44,215 5,473 2,965 5,751 58,404
Mild 43,960 5,447 2,938 5,712 58,057
Severe 220 25 19 35 299
Deadly 35 1 8 4 48
In itinere 15,085 1,108 522 1,011 17,726
With leave 15,085 1,108 522 1,011 17,726
Mild 14,844 1,082 509 998 17,433
Severe 219 20 11 11 261
Deadly 22 6 2 2 32
Source: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

Last update: March 21, 2018.

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 "..".