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Accidents at work. By sectors. Provinces

Accidents at work. By sectors and In Itinere. Provinces 2021 (p)
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Total 129,221 21,240 13,293 20,628 184,382
Without leave 64,875 10,695 6,866 11,010 93,446
With leave 64,346 10,545 6,427 9,618 90,936
Mild 63,971 10,487 6,368 9,558 90,384
Severe 332 52 50 49 483
Deadly 43 6 9 11 69
Agriculture 892 606 1,106 870 3,474
Without leave 382 288 495 378 1,543
With leave 510 318 611 492 1,931
Mild 502 314 605 487 1,908
Severe 7 4 5 3 19
Deadly 1 0 1 2 4
Industry 27,321 5,706 3,579 4,360 40,966
Without leave 14,318 2,811 2,041 2,649 21,819
With leave 13,003 2,895 1,538 1,711 19,147
Mild 12,937 2,878 1,523 1,698 19,036
Severe 57 16 13 9 95
Deadly 9 1 2 4 16
Construction 15,041 3,196 1,793 2,838 22,868
Without leave 6,778 1,581 883 1,446 10,688
With leave 8,263 1,615 910 1,392 12,180
Mild 8,185 1,605 897 1,385 12,072
Severe 68 9 11 7 95
Deadly 10 1 2 0 13
Services 85,967 11,732 6,815 12,560 117,074
Without leave 43,397 6,015 3,447 6,537 59,396
With leave 42,570 5,717 3,368 6,023 57,678
Mild 42,347 5,690 3,343 5,988 57,368
Severe 200 23 21 30 274
Deadly 23 4 4 5 36
In itinere
With leave 13,807 1,178 612 1,105 16,702
Mild 13,660 1,165 605 1,094 16,524
Severe 137 10 7 8 162
Deadly 10 3 0 3 16
Source: Ministry of Business and Employment.
(p) Provisional data.

Last update: August 5, 2022.

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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 "..".