According to data provided by Osalan, workplace accidents also cause a serious injury every two days. The work-related accident rate has grown by 11% until October, with 4,405 cases more than last year. The greatest increase has been registered in Álava, where the accident rate has increased by 22.5%.
Euskadi registered in the first ten months of the year 27 deaths and 162 people seriously injured due to work accidents, which means that accidents at work or on the way to and from it, claim the life of an operator every eleven days and cause a serious injury every two days. This is how he collected it Osalan, the Basque Institute for Occupational Health and Safety.
A total of 30 189 Basque workers suffered a work accident that led to sick leave in the first ten months of the year, which represents 4,405 more injured than in the January-October period of last year; that is, an increase of 17%.
According to data issued by Osalan, accidents on the shift between January and October amounted to 26,052 (+ 18.1%) and those recorded ‘in itinere’ to 2,869 (+ 8.3%). On the other hand, the relapses that led to sick leave were 1,268 (+ 17.4%).
Of the total accidents during work hours, 25,887 were mild, 141 severe, and 24 fatal (five more than in 2020). The incidents ‘in itinere’ of a minor nature were 2,845, there were 21 serious and three deaths.
By territories, claims increased 22.5% in Álava, with 4,817 accidents in working hours; 17.6% in Bizkaia, after registering 13,058 claims, and 16.5% in Gipuzkoa, after adding 8,177 mishaps.
Secondly, the sector with the most claims in working hours was Services (14,182 accidents), followed by Industry (8,252 accidents), Construction (3,136 people injured), and Agriculture, Livestock and Fishing (482 casualties).
Thus, the sector with the highest occupational accidents was Construction (55.6 casualties per thousand employed), followed by Industry (50.4 casualties), Primary (49.6 casualties per thousand employed), and Services (20.4 casualties per thousand workers).
In addition, the Basque Country recorded, in the January-October period, 1078 new occupational diseases that caused sick leave, which represents an increase of 7.4% compared to those recorded in 2020. The cases of occupational diseases that did not cause sick leave rose to 1,084, 10.4% more than the 982 diseases without absence from work recorded between January and October 2020.
Work accident in Bergara
Precisely this Saturday, the LAB union reported the death of a worker in Bergara. It was a 44-year-old man, a neighbor of Markina, a worker at the Fagor Ederlan company.
The LAB union has denounced that this death is not “a consequence of chance or fate”, but that the shift work system, especially night work, has consequences “very harmful to the physical and psychological health of the workers.”
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