(ANSA) - ROME, 04 MAY - The number of victims at work is growing again.
In the first quarter of 2023, a +3.7% was recorded compared to the same period of 2022: 196 victims against 189, with a growth peak in the North-West, +22.4%, "where the recovery of production activities is always involving human costs more intolerable".
This is what the Eures and Uil study "Workplace accidents in Italy: incidence and risk profiles" reports.
In 2022 there were three deaths at work per day, for a total of 1,090 deaths, a decrease of 10.7% compared to 2021, when there were 1,221 fatal accidents.
But the decline, the study underlines, is due "exclusively to the almost zeroing of victims at work due to Covid-19, which went from 294 in 2021 to 10 in 2022".
In fact, fatal accidents not related to the virus are increasing, growing by 16.5% in 2022.
Almost half of the deaths (46.9% in 2021, the latest data available) are recorded in the tertiary sector, a figure "driven by the transport and commerce sectors, which include the repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles , which altogether absorb over one fatal accident out of four.Follow - the study highlights - the industrial sector, which absorbs 37.5% of the events, and within which construction plays a particularly significant role, where 19% of deaths at work are recorded ".
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