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Accidents at work. By sectors. Provinces

Accidents at work. By sectors and In Itinere. Provinces 2021
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Total 129,201 21,237 13,288 20,625 184,351
Without leave 64,871 10,693 6,866 11,009 93,439
With leave 64,330 10,544 6,422 9,616 90,912
Mild 63,955 10,486 6,363 9,556 90,360
Severe 332 52 50 49 483
Deadly 43 6 9 11 69
Agriculture 891 606 1,106 870 3,473
Without leave 382 288 495 378 1,543
With leave 509 318 611 492 1,930
Mild 501 314 605 487 1,907
Severe 7 4 5 3 19
Deadly 1 0 1 2 4
Industry 27,316 5,706 3,579 4,360 40,961
Without leave 14,316 2,811 2,041 2,649 21,817
With leave 13,000 2,895 1,538 1,711 19,144
Mild 12,934 2,878 1,523 1,698 19,033
Severe 57 16 13 9 95
Deadly 9 1 2 4 16
Construction 15,040 3,196 1,793 2,838 22,867
Without leave 6,778 1,581 883 1,446 10,688
With leave 8,262 1,615 910 1,392 12,179
Mild 8,184 1,605 897 1,385 12,071
Severe 68 9 11 7 95
Deadly 10 1 2 0 13
Services 85,954 11,729 6,810 12,557 117,050
Without leave 43,395 6,013 3,447 6,536 59,391
With leave 42,559 5,716 3,363 6,021 57,659
Mild 42,336 5,689 3,338 5,986 57,349
Severe 200 23 21 30 274
Deadly 23 4 4 5 36
In itinere 13,800 1,178 612 1,104 16,694
With leave 13,800 1,178 612 1,104 16,694
Mild 13,653 1,165 605 1,093 16,516
Severe 137 10 7 8 162
Deadly 10 3 0 3 16
Source: Ministry of Business and Employment.

Last update: September 6, 2023.

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 "..".