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Accidents at work. By sectors. Provinces

Accidents at work. By sectors and In Itinere. Provinces 2017
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Total 159,505 23,875 14,205 21,986 219,571
Without leave 93,365 13,453 8,527 13,011 128,356
With leave 66,140 10,422 5,678 8,975 91,215
Mild 65,753 10,343 5,626 8,914 90,636
Severe 362 66 40 57 525
Deadly 25 13 12 4 54
Agriculture 987 735 1,118 1,053 3,893
Without leave 517 367 522 540 1,946
With leave 470 368 596 513 1,947
Mild 464 361 584 509 1,918
Severe 3 5 10 4 22
Deadly 3 2 2 0 7
Industry 35,553 6,534 4,216 4,820 51,123
Without leave 21,251 3,626 2,890 3,139 30,906
With leave 14,302 2,908 1,326 1,681 20,217
Mild 14,210 2,886 1,318 1,670 20,084
Severe 86 21 8 10 125
Deadly 6 1 0 1 8
Construction 14,564 2,692 1,561 2,091 20,908
Without leave 7,946 1,437 830 1,194 11,407
With leave 6,618 1,255 731 897 9,501
Mild 6,549 1,238 722 888 9,397
Severe 64 16 8 9 97
Deadly 5 1 1 0 7
Services 108,401 13,914 7,310 14,022 143,647
Without leave 63,651 8,023 4,285 8,138 84,097
With leave 44,750 5,891 3,025 5,884 59,550
Mild 44,530 5,858 3,002 5,847 59,237
Severe 209 24 14 34 281
Deadly 11 9 9 3 32
In itinere 15,875 1,126 567 986 18,554
With leave 15,875 1,126 567 986 18,554
Mild 15,669 1,105 554 971 18,299
Severe 190 18 10 13 231
Deadly 16 3 3 2 24
Source: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

Last update: March 4, 2019.

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 "..".