Wage and salary earners' workplace accident frequency decreased by 4.3 per cent in 2022
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release | Occupational accident statistics 2022According to Statistics Finland's data, the number of wage and salary earners' accidents at workplace with minimun 4 days incapacity was 9.0 per one million hours worked in the year 2022. This was 4.3 per cent lower than in the year before. Also the accident incidence rate among wage and salary earners decreased and the accident incidence rate among farmers decreased in 2022 compared with the previous year.
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- Wage and salary earners' workplace accident frequency decreased by 4.3 per cent in the year 2022 from the year before.
- Wage and salary earners' accident incidence rate at work fell by 2.2 per cent and farmers' accident incidence rate at work fell by 8.3 per cent in the year 2022.
- Construction industry (22,1 accidents at workplace per million working hours) had highest wage and salary earners' workplace accident frequency in the year 2022.
- Information and communication industry (0,7 accidents at workplace per million working hours) had lowest wage and salary earners' workplace accident frequency in the year 2022.
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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Occupational accident statistics [online publication].
Reference period: 2022. ISSN=1797-9544. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [Referenced: 2.12.2024].
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