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Accidents at work. By sectors. Provinces

Accidents at work. By sectors and In Itinere. Provinces 2006
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Total 246,398 31,058 17,452 29,986 324,894
Without leave 109,468 12,659 8,159 12,519 142,805
With leave 136,930 18,399 9,293 17,467 182,089
Mild 135,645 18,228 9,142 17,264 180,279
Severe 1,144 146 135 183 1,608
Deadly 141 25 16 20 202
Agriculture 2,011 871 671 834 4,387
Without leave 887 317 259 246 1,709
With leave 1,124 554 412 588 2,678
Mild 1,112 547 402 586 2,647
Severe 10 6 10 2 28
Deadly 2 1 0 0 3
Industry 78,494 8,388 4,632 7,478 98,992
Without leave 39,241 3,574 2,251 3,790 48,856
With leave 39,253 4,814 2,381 3,688 50,136
Mild 38,958 4,782 2,352 3,651 49,743
Severe 271 27 26 35 359
Deadly 24 5 3 2 34
Construction 39,612 7,361 4,599 8,088 59,660
Without leave 15,854 2,800 2,105 3,163 23,922
With leave 23,758 4,561 2,494 4,925 35,738
Mild 23,497 4,513 2,445 4,862 35,317
Severe 231 46 47 60 384
Deadly 30 2 2 3 37
Services 110,872 12,882 6,841 12,150 142,745
Without leave 53,486 5,968 3,544 5,320 68,318
With leave 57,386 6,914 3,297 6,830 74,427
Mild 56,988 6,867 3,260 6,764 73,879
Severe 348 40 34 57 479
Deadly 50 7 3 9 69
In itinere 15,409 1,556 709 1,436 19,110
With leave 15,409 1,556 709 1,436 19,110
Mild 15,090 1,519 683 1,401 18,693
Severe 284 27 18 29 358
Deadly 35 10 8 6 59
Source: Departament de Treball. Servei d'Estudis i Estadístiques.

Last update: April 29, 2011.

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 "..".