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Accidents at work. By sectors. Provinces

Accidents at work. By sectors and In Itinere. Provinces 2015
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Total 154,353 21,358 13,299 20,427 209,437
Without leave 94,111 12,529 8,408 12,517 127,565
With leave 60,242 8,829 4,891 7,910 81,872
Mild 59,838 8,748 4,823 7,855 81,264
Severe 353 74 62 50 539
Deadly 51 7 6 5 69
Agriculture 1,023 697 985 1,049 3,754
Without leave 541 332 456 548 1,877
With leave 482 365 529 501 1,877
Mild 478 360 519 498 1,855
Severe 3 5 10 3 21
Deadly 1 0 0 0 1
Industry 35,292 5,926 3,884 4,581 49,683
Without leave 22,050 3,418 2,754 3,056 31,278
With leave 13,242 2,508 1,130 1,525 18,405
Mild 13,138 2,478 1,117 1,509 18,242
Severe 92 26 13 14 145
Deadly 12 4 0 2 18
Construction 12,299 2,266 1,427 1,843 17,835
Without leave 7,186 1,281 809 1,067 10,343
With leave 5,113 985 618 776 7,492
Mild 5,066 973 603 765 7,407
Severe 42 11 13 11 77
Deadly 5 1 2 0 8
Services 105,739 12,469 7,003 12,954 138,165
Without leave 64,334 7,498 4,389 7,846 84,067
With leave 41,405 4,971 2,614 5,108 54,098
Mild 41,156 4,937 2,584 5,083 53,760
Severe 216 32 26 22 296
Deadly 33 2 4 3 42
In itinere 13,711 1,001 410 907 16,029
With leave 13,711 1,001 410 907 16,029
Mild 13,523 979 400 895 15,797
Severe 173 18 8 12 211
Deadly 15 4 2 0 21
Source: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

Last update: March 10, 2017.

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 "..".