(Finance) – In the first 11 months of 2023 the reports of accidents at work presented to INAIL are fell by 16.8% compared to the previous year ei deaths decreased by 3.8% thanks to the decrease in fatal cases while commuting, which fell from 284 to 223, while those that occurred at work went from 722 to 745. The number of reported occupational diseases increased, reaching 67,094 (+20.4%). The institute explains this by recalling that it is necessary to carefully evaluate the data before making an overall assessment. This is what emerges in the “Open data” section of the Inail website on reports of accidents and occupational diseases.
In detail the accident reports submitted to INAIL within the month of November were 542,568decreasing compared to the 652,002 of the first 11 months of 2022 (-16.8%), increasing compared to the 502,458 of 2021 (+8.0%) and the 492,150 of 2020 (+10.2%), and decreasing compared to 590,679 in 2019 (-8.1%).
At a national level, the data collected on 30 November of each year show, for the first 11 months of 2023 compared to the same period of the previous year, a decrease in cases occurring at workwhich went from 569,133 in 2022 to 455,140 in 2023 (-20.0%), while those in progress recorded an increase of 5.5%, from 82,869 to 87,428.
As for the accidents November this year the number of workplace accidents reported fell -20.4% in Industry and services management (from 541,669 cases in 2022 to 431,044 in 2023), a +0.4% in Agriculture (from 24,341 to 24,450) and a +1.3% in the State Account (from 85,992 to 87,074). Decreases in accidents at work are observed in many production sectors, in particular the public administration, which includes the activity of the bodies responsible for healthcare – Local Health Authorities – and regional, provincial and municipal administrators (-55.3%), Health and social assistance (-52.4%) and Transport and warehousing (-38.5%).
In contrast, some sectors of the manufacturing sector, such as those of the manufacturing of motor vehicles (+24.6%), beverages (+24.6%), repair, maintenance and installation of machines and equipment (+10.1%), clothing (+6.6%), but also the supply of water-sewage systems, waste management and sanitation activities (+14.4%), accommodation and catering services activities (+5.4% ) and construction (+5.3%).
The reports of fatal accidents at work presented to the Institute in the first 11 months of 2023 there were 968, 38 less compared to the 1,006 recorded in the period January-November 2022, 148 less than 2021, 183 less than 2020 and 29 less than 2019.
At a national level, the data collected on 30 November of each year show for the first 11 months of 2023 compared to the same period of 2022, despite the provisional nature of the numbers, a decrease only in fatal cases en routedropped from 284 to 223, while those that occurred during work went from 722 to 745. The decline concerned both Industry and Services (from 859 to 823 deaths) and the State Account (from 35 to 32), while the ‘Agriculture rises from 112 to 113.
Fromterritorial analysis shows declines in the North-West (from 276 to 254 cases), in North East (from 224 to 219) and others Center (204 to 176) e increases in the South (from 224 to 235) and in the Islands (from 78 to 84). The regions showing the greatest increases are Friuli Venezia Giulia (+15), Abruzzo (+13), Campania and Umbria (+6 each), while the most significant drops are those found in Tuscany (-22), Piedmont (-13 ), Marche (-11) and Veneto (-10).
The complaints of occupational disease registered by INAIL in the first 11 months of 2023 were 67,094, over 11 thousand more than in the same period of 2022 (+20.4%). The increase is 32.1% compared to 2021, 63.9% compared to 2020 and 18.6% compared to 2019.
The data collected on November 30th of each year show an increase of 21.2% in Industry and services management (from 46,024 to 55,784 cases), by 16.1% in Agriculture (from 9,207 to 10,687) and by 24.4% in the State Account (from 501 to 623). The increase in complaints affects all areas of the country, starting from the South (+28.2%), followed by the North-West (+21.7%), the Center (+20.3%), the North-East ( +18.5%) and Islands (+5.8%). Among the regions, the exceptions are Valle d’Aosta (-18.9%) and Calabria (-2.3%).