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Accidents at work. By sectors. Provinces

Accidents at work. By sectors and In Itinere. Provinces 2010
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Total 208,106 24,023 14,667 25,109 271,905
Without leave 114,838 13,076 8,234 14,502 150,650
With leave 93,268 10,947 6,433 10,607 121,255
Mild 92,413 10,834 6,351 10,498 120,096
Severe 793 96 74 96 1,059
Deadly 62 17 8 13 100
Agriculture 1,108 650 759 976 3,493
Without leave 532 310 345 501 1,688
With leave 576 340 414 475 1,805
Mild 562 335 406 463 1,766
Severe 14 5 7 11 37
Deadly 0 0 1 1 2
Industry 51,473 6,122 3,996 6,016 67,607
Without leave 31,125 3,419 2,394 4,015 40,953
With leave 20,348 2,703 1,602 2,001 26,654
Mild 20,175 2,686 1,583 1,981 26,425
Severe 163 14 16 19 212
Deadly 10 3 3 1 17
Construction 25,329 4,112 2,508 4,399 36,348
Without leave 14,183 2,202 1,403 2,466 20,254
With leave 11,146 1,910 1,105 1,933 16,094
Mild 11,019 1,895 1,088 1,914 15,916
Severe 119 12 15 18 164
Deadly 8 3 2 1 14
Services 116,233 12,012 6,900 12,778 147,923
Without leave 68,998 7,145 4,092 7,520 87,755
With leave 47,235 4,867 2,808 5,258 60,168
Mild 46,958 4,824 2,786 5,220 59,788
Severe 257 41 20 31 349
Deadly 20 2 2 7 31
In itinere 13,963 1,127 504 940 16,534
With leave 13,963 1,127 504 940 16,534
Mild 13,699 1,094 488 920 16,201
Severe 240 24 16 17 297
Deadly 24 9 0 3 36
Source: Ministry for Business and Labour.

Last update: April 26, 2012.

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 "..".