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, by the end of 2024 we will count over 1,000 victims at work.
From January to April 2024 there were 268 victims, 4 more than at the end April 2023. Compared to the same period last year, commuting deaths increased by +8.8%: it should be highlighted that up to March we had recorded a decrease in fatal accidents on the commute to work, unfortunately this trend was not confirmed with the month’s data of April”.
Mauro RossatoPresident of the Vega Engineering Workplace Safety and Environment Observatory of Mestre, comments thus on the latest investigation into the emergency developed by its 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.
THE RISK OF DEATH, REGION BY REGION, AT THE END APRIL 2024. FROM THE RED ZONE TO THE WHITE ZONE
Ending up in the red zone ad 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.
(Attached and on the site www.vegaengineering.com/observatory graphs and data are available).
THE ACCIDENT PHENOMENON BY AGE GROUP: THE OLDERERS EVEN AT GREATER RISK
Even in the first quarter of the year theObservatorymestrino draws up an identikit of the workers most at risk by age group. And it always does so through mortality rates (per million employed).
A fact, the latter, which continues to be worrying among older workers. In fact, the highest incidence is recorded precisely in the group of workers over sixty-five (34.9), followed by the group of workers between 55 and 64 years of age (13.5).
FOREIGN WORKERS SUBJECT TO AN ALMOST THREE RISK OF FATAL INJURY COMPARED TO ITALIANS
Foreigners who died at work in the first quarter were 48 out of a total of 206, with a risk of death at work that was almost triple that of Italians. And, in fact, foreigners record 20.2 deaths for every million employed people, compared to the 7.5 of Italians who lose their lives while working.
THE ABSOLUTE NUMBERS OF DEATHS AT WORK AND INJURIES IN ITALY AT THE END APRIL 2024
There are 268 victims at work in Italy, of which 206 at work (1 less than April 2023) and 62 underway (5 more than the previous year). April 2023). Lombardy also 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.
THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR MOST AFFECTED BY THE PHENOMENON OF DEATHS AT WORK
At the end of the first quarter of 2024, the Construction sector still recorded the highest number of deaths at work: 41. It is followed by Manufacturing Activities (25), Transport and Warehousing (19), Trade (11 ).
The age group numerically most affected by fatal accidents at work is between 55 and 64 years (69 out of a total of 206).
Women who lost their lives when work ended April 2024 there are 12, while 7 lost their lives en route, that is, on the home-work journey.
There were 48 foreigners who died at work, while 14 died due to an accident while commuting.
Tuesday appears to be the most mournful day of the week, i.e. the one on which the most fatal accidents occurred in the first quarter of the year (21.8%).
ACCIDENT REPORTS STILL GROWING COMPARED TO APRIL 2023
Total accident reports grew by 3.6% compared to April 2023. There were, in fact, 187,324 at the end April 2023in 2024 they rose to 193,979.
THE NUMBERS OF TOTAL INJURY REPORTS BY SECTOR: THE BLACK JERSEY TO MANUFACTURING ACTIVITIES
Even at the end April in 2024 the highest number of total complaints comes from Manufacturing Activities (22,299); followed by: Construction (10,913), Healthcare (10,873), Transport and Warehousing (10,072) and Commerce (9,759).
TOTAL COMPLAINTS BY GENDER, NATIONALITY AND AGE
Reports of accidents by female workers April 2024there were 70,733, those of male colleagues 123,246.
Reports of accidents at work (therefore excluding commuting accidents) were 165,249 at the endApril 2024: 56,341 are women and 108,908 are men.
Reports of accidents at work among Italians are 133,297, while among foreigners there are 31,952.
The age group most affected when working and commuting is between 45 and 54 years old with 41,613 complaints (21.5% of the total).
WHAT IS THE INCIDENCE OF INJURIES?
The incidence of fatal accidents indicates the number of workers who died while working in a given area (region or province) for every million employed people present in the same area. This index allows us to compare the accident phenomenon between different regions, even though they are characterized by a different working population.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE ZONATION CREATED BY THE VEGA SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT OBSERVATORY?
The zoning used by the Vega Engineering Safety and Environment Observatory depicts the accident risk in the Italian regions according to the following color scale:
White: regions with an accident incidence lower than 75% of the national average incidence
Yellow: regions with an accident incidence between 75% of the national average incidence and the national average value
Orange: regions with an accident incidence between the national average value and 125% of the national average incidence
Red: regions with an accident incidence higher than 125% of the national average incidence
