Sun, 29 Nov, 2015 12:08:27 AM FTimes Report, Nov 29  File Photo Lehtikuva. Nearly 135,000 accidents at work occurred in Finland in 2013 marking a slightly fall from the previous year, according to Statistics Finland.
In 2012, there were 139,000 accidents at work and in 2011 the respective figure was 142,000.
Around 123,000 of these occurred to wage and salary earners and some 11,400 to self-employed persons including farmers.
In 2013, a total of 35 persons died at the place of work or while commuting. Of these fatal accidents at work, 16 occurred to wage and salary earners, four to farmers and two to other self-employed persons.
In addition, 13 fatal accidents occurred while commuting, all of them to wage and salary earners. The number of fatal accidents at work fell clearly from the year before, as in 2012 a total of 61 persons died at work or while commuting, the data show.
The victims of all fatal accidents at work included 29 wage and salary earners, four farmers and two other self-employed persons.
The majority of all the accidents occurred at places of work or while in work traffic, whereas slightly over 22,000 of them occurred while commuting.
The 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.
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 the European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW) of Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities.
Number of wage and salary earners’, self-employed persons’ and farmers’ accidents at work by severity in 2013
1) Farmers' accidents at work and commuting accidents are not separated. Source: Occupational accident statistics 2013, Statistics Finland.
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