Thu, 28 Nov, 2013 04:59:13 AM FTimes-STT Report, November 28  Photo - Lehtikuva. The number of accidents at work increased slightly in Finland in 2011 from the previous year, an official data shows.
A total of 142,000 accidents at work occurred in 2011 while in 2010, there were 135,000 accidents and in 2009 the respective figure was nearly 128,000, according to the Statistics Finland’s statistics.
Around 131,000 of these occurred to wage and salary earners and some 11,400 to self-employed persons (including farmers).
The majority or almost 119,000 of all accidents at work occurred at places of work or while in work traffic, whereas slightly over 23,000 of them occurred while commuting.
These numbers also include minor accidents at work that led to disability lasting less than four days, and on which insurance companies paid compensation only for medical treatment expenses.
Wage and salary earners' accidents at work increased from 2005 to 2008, but in 2009 the total number of accidents at work fell to the level where it was ten years previously, according to the statistics.
Since the reference year 2005, an accident at work has been defined in Statistics Finland’s statistics on occupational accidents according to the definition used in Eurostat's (the Statistical Office of the European Communities) European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW).
According to the definition, the statistics contain data on accidents at work which have resulted in "disability of at least four days".
In 2011, a total of 55 persons died at the place of work or while commuting. Of these fatal accidents at work, 26 occurred to wage and salary earners, four to own-account workers in agriculture and three to other self-employed persons, according to the statistics.
In addition, 22 fatal accidents took place while commuting, of which 21 occurred to wage and salary earners and one to other self-employed persons than farmers.
The number of fatal accidents at work fell clearly from the year before, as in 2010 a total of 61 persons suffered fatal accidents at work or while commuting.
The victims of all fatal accidents at work included 47 wage and salary earners, four farmers and four other self-employed persons.
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