“Having almost reached the halfway point of half a yearthe projection for the end of 2024 of the victims at work seems to be already tragic and similar to that of previous years. From January to May there are 369 victims, 11 more compared to the end of May 2023. Compared to the same period last year they grow Unfortunately, work-related deaths +5,5%. And this is the given more significant and disheartening, because it is what a story tells worsening of the conditions of safety in the workplace”.
Mauro RossatoPresident of the Mestre Observatory for Workplace Safety and the Environment, expresses his concern following the reading of thelatest investigation carried out from its team of experts on the increase in workplace deaths.
“But as always – he claims – And Incidence is the real risk indicator for the workers of our country, since we are talking about victims in relation to the working population. A figure that concretely indicates the areas at greatest risk and which is proposed as a valuable mapping for everyone those who work for safety at work”.
DEATHS REGION BY REGION
To end up in red zone at the end of May with an incidence higher than +25% compared to the national average (Im=Average incidence index, equal to 12.1 deaths at work per million workers) I am: Aosta Valley, Trentino-Alto Adige, Umbria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Sicily and Puglia. In Orange zone: Calabria. In yellow zone: Abruzzo, Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany, Basilicata, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Molise. In the white area: Lazio, Sardinia, Marche and Veneto.
THE PHENOMENON BY AGE GROUPS
Even in the first five months of the year the Mestre Observatory elaborates the identikit of the workers more at risk for age range. And it always does so through the mortality rates (per million employed).
This last figure continues to be worrying. among older workers. In fact, the highest incidence is recorded in the working age group over sixty-five (with an incidence of 55.0), followed by the band between 55 and 64 years old (with an incidence of 19.4).
FOREIGNERS AT MORTAL RISK
The deceased foreigners I am 62 out of a total of 286with a risk of death at work that is more than double compared to Italians. And in fact there are 26.1 deaths per million employedagainst the 10.6 of Italians who lose their lives at work.
THE ABSOLUTE NUMBERS
I am 369 victims at work in Italyof which 286 at work (15 more than in May 2023) and 83 in itinere (4 less than in May 2023). Lombardy still has the highest number of victims at work (48). They are followed by: Emilia-Romagna (35), Campania (30), Sicily (22), Lazio (21), Puglia (20), Piedmont (19), Tuscany (17), Veneto (14), Trentino-Alto Adige (12), Calabria (8)Umbria and Liguria (7), Abruzzo (6), Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sardinia and Marche (5), Valle d’Aosta and Basilicata (2) and Molise (1)
BUILDINGS MOST AFFECTED
It’s still the Construction sector to highlight the highest number of deaths at work: I am 57. Followed by Manufacturing Activities (37), Transport and Warehousing (25) and Trade (18). The age group numerically most affected by fatal accidents at work is that between 55 and 64 years old (99 out of 286 total).
The data who lost their lives are 21while 8 lost their lives en route, that is, on the way from home to work. Foreigners 62while 17 died due to an accident on the way to work.
Il Tuesday turns out to be the most mournful day of the week, that is, the one in which the most fatal accidents occurred in the first five months of the year (23.1%).
ACCIDENT REPORTS
Total injury reports grow by 2.1% compared to May 2023. In fact, they were 245,857 at the end of May 2023, in 2024 they went to 251,132.
COMPLAINTS BY SECTOR
The highest number of complaints total comes from Manufacturing Activities (29,256); followed by: Construction (14,469), Health (14,370), Transport and Storage (13,266) and Trade (12,911).
COMPLAINTS BY GENDER, NATIONALITY AND AGE
The accident reports of the female workers were 91.441those of male colleagues 159.691. Those at work (excluding therefore accidents on the way to and from work) were 212.803: 72,241 are women and 140,562 are men.
Reports of accidents at work by Italians are 171.584while foreigners are 41.219The age group most affected at work and in itinere is the one that goes from 45 to 54 years old with 53,420 reports (21.3% of the total).
