There are 268 victims at work in Italy, of which 206 at work (1 less than in April 2023) and 62 while commuting (5 more than in April 2023). Lombardy still takes the black jersey for the highest number of victims at work (33). Followed by: Emilia-Romagna (28), Campania (20), Puglia (17), Lazio (16), Tuscany and Piedmont (13), Trentino-Alto Adige (12), Veneto and Sicily (11), Calabria (6) , Sardinia and Umbria (5), Liguria (4), Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Abruzzo and Marche (3), Valle d’Aosta (2) Basilicata (1). No fatal accidents occurred in Molise.
“A third of the year has already passed and the emergency deaths at work are described by the usual tragic numbers. If the situation does not change, even by the end of 2024 we will count over a thousand victims at work. From January to April 2024 there were 268 victims, 4 more than at the end of April 2023. Compared to the same period last year, commuting deaths increased by +8.8%: it should be highlighted that until March we had recorded a decrease in fatal accidents on the way home to work, unfortunately this trend was not confirmed with the data for the month of April”. Mauro Rossato, president of the Vega Engineering Workplace Safety and Environment observatory of Mestre, comments thus on the latest investigation into the emergency developed by his team of experts who, as always, see the incidence as the true indicator of risk for workers in our country , since we are talking about victims compared to the working population. A data that concretely indicates the areas at greatest risk and which is proposed as a valuable mapping for all those who work for safety at work.
Ending up in the red zone in April 2024 with an incidence higher than +25% compared to the national average (Im=Average incidence index, equal to 8.7 workplace deaths per million workers) are: Valle d’Aosta, Trentino- Alto Adige, Emilia-Romagna, Umbria, Puglia, Campania and Calabria.
In the yellow zone: Sardinia, Tuscany, Sicily, Lombardy, Piedmont and Lazio. In the white zone: Liguria, Abruzzo, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Basilicata, Veneto, Marche and Molise.
Syracuse is 43rd in the national ranking based on the incidence index, with one case of white death out of 110,211 employed people. Black jersey for Catania which ranks 40th and is the worst in Sicily with 3 victims out of 318,580 employed.
These are numbers updated up to the month of April.
